On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:27:57PM -0700, Stas Bekman wrote: > Glenn Strauss wrote: > >The Socket.Handle property is what I think is needed so that > >APR::OS::sock_get() can be made to work on Windows, too. > >mpxs_APR__OS_sock_get() will need to special-case Windows platforms > >and pull the Handle property. I hope that works. Any Windows > >programmers out there? > > and I suppose IntPtr is an integer pointer? > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemintptrclasstopic.asp > but it can't be really casted with (int) as it can be longer than > sizeof(int).
Theoretically, yes. But we're talking about file descriptors in this case, and that's a lot of open files. Does any operating system out there support 2 GB open file descriptors? Casting to int shouldn't be a problem in current practice, though I'm not a Windows developer, so take that with some sea salt (large grains; great for Margaritas). > and if it was the case, why didn't apr provid such a call? Any APR developers listening? APR hasn't reached version 1.0 yet (though it is frozen for its upcoming release); it has come a long way and is constantly improving. > So do you think it's easier to just get this sock_get thing crossplatform > and then just use perl modules to manipulate the socket object? Or is it > better to expose apr_poll(set)?_.* interface? I prefer the later, as we > won't need to deal with crossplatform issues, leaving those to the letter > P in APR. Sure, give me ever-evolving (for the better!) APIs that hide low level primitives, but please also always give me access to the low level primitives so that I can get the job done when the higher level APIs do not meet my needs/map to my paradigm. TIMTOWTDI. :) Cheers, Glenn -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
