On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 19:26, Marc Lehmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 02:14:42PM -0600, AJ ONeal <[email protected]> wrote: >> *send()* and *recv()*. Well, in short, I was being lazy. See, by using these >> system calls, I don't have to enter the *flags* argument that *send()* and * >> recv()* use, and I always set it to zero anyway. Of course, socket > > Not only that, it means your code will be much more generic (it works with > non-sockets for example). > > However, recv has the (nonportable) advantage of the MSG_DONTWAIT option > on many operating systems, which allows one to avoid changing fd flags on > shared fds, while send might have MSG_NOSIGNAL to avoid SIGPIPE, which cna > also be a nuisance. > > Having said that, I always prefer read/write myself because I hate to > write code that only works with some fd types when it could work with all.
thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to hear :) Alejandro _______________________________________________ libev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libev
