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Re: socket programming

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Date 2013-05-03 21:03 -0700
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Subject Re: socket programming
From Pedro <pedro@ncf.ca>

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On Friday, May 3, 2013 11:56:01 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Pedro <pedro@ncf.ca> wrote:
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> > On Friday, May 3, 2013 10:23:38 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> >> The accept() call should block. It's not going to spin or anything. If
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> >>
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> >> you need to monitor multiple sockets, have a look at select().
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> >
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> > Thanks Chris, can you elaborate on the accept() call should block?
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> When you call accept(), your program stops running until there's a
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> connection. It's like calling input() (or raw_input()) and your
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> program stopping until you type something. You can disable that by
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> setting the socket nonblocking, but I don't think you're doing that
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> here (and you probably don't want to).
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> Consider the accept() call to be, effectively, like reading from the
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> bound socket. In many ways it functions that way.
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> 
> 
> ChrisA

Brilliant explanation Chris, I swear I read three different docs on that question and could not deduce what you just wrote. Thank you.

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socket programming Pedro <pedro@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-03 19:13 -0700
  Re: socket programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-04 12:23 +1000
    Re: socket programming Pedro <pedro@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-03 20:37 -0700
      Re: socket programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-04 13:56 +1000
        Re: socket programming Pedro <pedro@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-03 21:03 -0700
  Re: socket programming Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2013-05-04 11:37 +0200
    Re: socket programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-04 20:00 +1000
    Re: socket programming Pedro <pedro@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-06 08:54 -0700
      Re: socket programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 02:05 +1000
      Re: socket programming Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2013-05-06 19:54 +0100

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