> [I suspect (based on the all-caps spelling of SOCKET and the sample > code provided earlier) that Mr. Giudicelli speaks from a Windows > perspective, which doesn't handle multiple processes very well, and > certainly does not abstract tcp sockets into simple file descriptors > the way unix does.]
The irony is that on Windows, with IOCP, it's even more common to have concurrent reads and writes to the same socket handled by different threads. IOCP throws read and write events into the same event queue because you associate a socket with a completion port! DS ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]