Re: Multithread safety

BSD Sockets happily support multiple socket I/O on a single
thread. The trick is to use non-blocking sockets and select
judiciously.

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Alexander Nickolov
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"Eugene Gershnik" <gershnik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mike Gleason Jr Couturier wrote:
>> What I meant to say is : If one thread is writing to
>> the socket while another one is reading to it (full-duplex),
>> its impossible in certain cases for the writing thread to
>> be notified in time by the reading thread that the socket
>> has been closed by the peer... So how can I write
>> full-duplex production code?
>
> I am not sure what exactly you mean by full-duplex in this context so I'll
> assume that you want to read and write simultaneously rather than in
> request-response fashion. In this case you need to break the BSD barrier
> and use asynchronous I/O offered by Winsock. Unless you need full Unix
> compatibility (and even then) it rarely makes sense to limit yourself to
> BSD-style sockets only. They were invented in a different world with
> different performance characteristics and application architectures than
> the one you develop for.
>
> --
> Eugene
> http://www.gershnik.com
>
>
>


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