Re: In search of suitable Carbon networking API...
Re: In search of suitable Carbon networking API...
- Subject: Re: In search of suitable Carbon networking API...
- From: "Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:21:01 -0600
Greetings Dylan,
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> Greetings Dylan,
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>> I am currently considering porting my program (Aquaduct, see
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>> http://postpose.com/aquaduct) from Cocoa to Carbon, and am thinking of
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>> using Open Transport.
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> Very interesting. May I ask why? Of those that are moving, most are
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> moving from Carbon to Cocoa...
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Well, I'd like to add support for 9, as well as X. Lots of people have
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been asking for it. :)
OK, that's a legit reason I guess. (grin)
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> OT can do both of these, under Mac OS 9. If you want to do this on Ten,
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> you should use the BSD sockets API, which is C-based. Also, I believe
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> you
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> need to run as root to open promiscuous mode on Ten.
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Right now, I'm using BSD sockets. Is there no way to do it in X with
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OT? :\
OT is a shim on top of BSD sockets on X. Only the higher-level APIs work,
lower level APIs just aren't there because STREAMS isn't there...
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