Re: New patch for server sockets and datagram (UDP) support.

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     We could rename the C-level function to, say, open-network-connection
>     and write lisp-level wrappers (in simple.el) around it like
>     open-network-stream, open-network-stream-nowait, 
> open-network-stream-server,
>     open-local-stream-nowait, open-local-stream, open-local-stream-server,
>     open-datagram-server, open-datagram-client,
>     etc. etc.  
> 
> That is taking things to an absurd extreme.  We certainly do not want
> to define all these as separate functions--it would be cumbersome.

I agree.

> 
> However, to have two or three convenience or compatibility functions
> for a few larger categories of cases could be a good idea.

In the patch I'll send out later today, only three such functions are
defined:

open-network-stream
open-network-stream-nowait
open-network-stream-server

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk