On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > > I'm not convinced that introducing the new Connection class instead of > > > changing the semantics of CircleBuf is really best. Seems to add alot of > > > extra text all over the place. If you look at carefully, the only reason > > > serverstate has the FD at all is so it can call select. It only needs the > > > FD for this, and it does not need the other baggage. > > > Um. So what should I do with this Select salad? In the present http-cc > > code it's taking in up to three Fds: > > Didn't you already answer this email?
Actually, no :-))) > Anyhow, the select salad is a select salad because that is how select was > designed. I just got the idea how to implement one in OO. You know: Latice, Tomatos, Olives etc. > > that returns a filehandle on which we can play those select tricks. > > This could be easily done but if we do that then we're only _acting_ > > like being OO. > > Which is probably best. I use Classes and C++ for purely pragmatic > reasons, in my experiance the conventional theoretical wisdom about OO > design does hold up well for complete OO systems, but on C++, interfacing > with C code that is rarely the case. > > The situation you pose above is quite typical, and you have to decide, > what it is more important, a pure OO design, or a pragmatic solution that > is much shorter? > > So, yes, we are only _acting_ like pure OO, but we are doing this because > it gives a net decrease in LOC and a gain in maintainability. Also, yes, > if you try and apply OO design concepts to what I have done you can > easially conclude that alot of the classes are needless, may have > unclearly defined purposes, etc, etc - BUT taken together I belive it > represents the lowest LOC and has a good level of understandability. Well: -rw-r--r-- 1 tpo tpo 11045 Apr 3 12:45 apt_0.5.4-0.1.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 tpo tpo 15455 Apr 9 00:19 apt_0.5.4-0.2.diff.gz But OK, I'm no C++/OO wizard. I got an idea how to implement the select mess and it would be nice to do it in an efficient way. We'll see. > Hope this helps, Yes, thanks. It sucks, but I'm learning ;-) *t ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Some fanatics, killed 3100 [1] civilians. Upon which their civilised national state country killed 3100 of their [2]. Which party would you prefer as a your friend? Which one do you think is the less likely to kill you? [1] http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,176540,00.html [2] http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold/AfghanDailyCount.xls ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
