J Unix sockets require use of sdselect. No C required.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you for the suggestions. I found my problem. I thought that setting
> sdasync set async for all sockets. It has to be set for each socket. Also,
> strange things happen when you mix async and non-async sockets in the same
> J
> session. Doesn't look like a good idea to mix them.
>
> I gather that J under UNIX does not support async and waiting on socket
> events and other events together requires writing something in C. Also, the
> help file http://www.jsoftware.com/help/user/socket_utilities.htm needs to
> be corrected changing "sdwsaasync" to "sdasync".
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:28 PM, David Mitchell <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > On 2/25/2010 15:51, Don Guinn wrote:
> > > In attempting to make a socket non-blocking I am trying to use
> "sdasync"
> > and
> > > it appears not to work; however, I'm sure it's something I'm doing
> wrong
> > and
> > > that is not my question. In looking at the sockets script there is a
> > message
> > > in the "sdasync" definition saying it is not implemented in UNIX. To
> use
> > > "sdselect". Does this mean that it is impossible to have non-blocking
> > > sockets in UNIX? If you can have non-blocking sockets in UNIX, how is
> it
> > > done?
> > >
> > > In the help file for sockets near the bottom of the page, next to last
> > name,
> > > is the name "sdwsaasync" which is to set non-blocking. No such name in
> > the
> > > sockets script. Shouldn't that the name should be "adsync".
> > >
> >
> > Here is an example:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JWebServer/EventHandler?highlight=%28sdselect%29
> >
> > And a paper
> >
> > Abstract:
> > UNIX applications not wishing to block when doing
> > I/O often use the select() system call, to wait for
> > events on multiple file descriptors.
> >
> > http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix99/full_papers/banga/banga.pdf
> > --
> > David Mitchell
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