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RE: Documentation on sockets and threads API
- To: "Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried at heintze dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Documentation on sockets and threads API
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:04:28 -0500
- References: <4.3.1.2.20010228114339.0176cc20@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
At 02:22 PM 2/28/2001, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
>Larry,
>
>Ugghh... Ok, thanks. I can download source and look at it. Do I have it
>already with the automated default installation procedure?
If you selected source for the cygwin package, you'll have the version that
goes with the DLL you have. Otherwise, you can download a current snapshot
or pull from CVS.
>Is there an relationship between
>http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xns/recv.html and the cygwin
>implementation of (for example) recv?
Don't know. Haven't looked.
>I thought the purpose of cygwin was to minimize source code changes when
>porting from unix. Isn't there some documented flavor of unix that cygwin is
>based on?
BSD'ish probably but I can't say for sure. Keep in mind that sockey stuff
is based on Winsock and all its glories!;-)
> Siegfried
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:44 AM
>To: Siegfried Heintze; cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Documentation on sockets and threads API
>
>
>At 06:57 PM 2/27/2001, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> >Hi Folks,
> > I hope this is the correct mailing list.
> > I looked thru the Cygwin Users Guide and API refernence and found mention
> >of the socket API and the PThread API. But it was pretty brief. Where can I
> >find more detailed information that describes the arguments, return values?
> > I specifically want to know how what header files to include and how to
> >check for errors. Do I just check errno?
> > Thanks,
> > Siegfried
>
>
>
>You'll want to look at the Cygwin source.
>
>
>
>Larry
>
>
>
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