On Apr 22, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, James Housley wrote: > >> I think maybe we should remove the *nb() functions and make the >> old names just work. I would also like to keep old programs >> working in all cases, as long as they didn't set non-blocking to >> true (since we know that didn't work). But before proceeding I >> would like to wait a while, April 29th, to allow others a chance >> to chime in. > > We would then need to modify the prototypes for several of the old > functions as the non-blocking ones need to be able to return > *_EAGAIN and there is a bunch of functions in the 0.14 API that > don't easily allow that without modifications. > > A few examples: libssh2_session_init_ex, libssh2_sftp_open_ex, > libssh2_sftp_init, ... Basically all that operations on sockets > that return a struct/handle.
Those I am thinking about, but currently they return NULL on error. So if we used the error codes these could work with minimal changes. > > So while this makes a bigger impact on existing applications, I'm > still leaning towards this being the better idea, to minimize the > amount of function entries and code. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is no similarity. -- From the "I wish I'd said that" archives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ libssh2-devel mailing list libssh2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libssh2-devel
