It will use blocking IO.  If you want non-blocking IO, then look into
NIO.

Regards,
Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Woolsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 8:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Socket Question
> 
> I was wondering how the socket class is implemented. Does it basically
> assume blocking io? I know you can read without anything there and it
> blocks. Is there a way to hook a callback in so that if data is
incoming
> it will do something?
> 
> I chased through the lib source code and managed to trace it back to a
> native call. I didn't see anything like a callback there. I just
looked
> through a few C/C++ tutorials and don't see anything about callbacks
> there either, but I had to ask.
> 
> 
>                                           - bfn - JAW
> 


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