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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [PATCH] the beginnings of multicast support Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 11:43:57 -0400 From: Jeff Trawick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Garrett Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Garrett Rooney wrote:
On Sunday, April 6, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote:
If APR had support for extended socket options (i.e., anything other than single-integer option data, would you have still chosen to create separate functions or would you have chosen to use socket options for multicast, as is done with existing socket interfaces?i'd be willing to consider an extended socket options interface for this kind of stuff, since that would be quite natural for a unix programmer coming to apr (that is how all this stuff is done in unix land after all), but i'm curious how it would feel for a win32 (or netware or os/2 or whatever) coder. how is multicast support usually done on other platforms?
FWIW, Win32 uses socket options (at least with the BSD socket API).
