Re: [Gcl-devel] Questions concerning Documentation, Sockets, FFI

[Peter Wood]

Hi

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 04:28:01PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Hi Peter!
> 
> Peter Wood <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 01:32:01PM -0800, Eric Merritt wrote:
> > 
> > > any gcl specific documentation? If so could you point
> > > me to the appropriate location.
> > 
> > There is no socket documentation, as far as I know.  Your best bet is
> > to read the file o/socket.c.  Apart from that the info file you want
> > is GCL-SI or GCL-TK for GCL specific info
> >  
> 
> I'm adding this to my mental socket to do list, which currently has
> your earlier reported erratic failures already on it.  Do you feel in
> the mood to suggest a documentation patch to cover the socket API?
> 

OK.  I hereby suggest a documentation patch to cover the socket API!
Note: this doesn't mean I'm volunteering to actually _write_ this
documentation! ;-) ;-)

> > You also mentioned multithreading.  I'm pretty sure GCL doesn't have
> > this feature.
> > 
> 
> Wondering how important this is.
> 

FWIW, I would categorize it as "theoretically nice to have, but so far
down the priority list as to be practically invisible".

Regards,
Peter