At 10:46 AM 2/8/2001 -0600, Forrest Cahoon wrote:
>I'm sorry this message is so long, but we are having some real trouble
>using sockets from perl here, and I desperately want to get to the
>bottom of it. It appears that perl programs using sockets on our
>OpenVMS system immediately echo back any messages they receive.
You can't use C's stdio calls on sockets on VMS. (Which means no print or
<>) If you need to read or write to them, use sysread and syswrite.
Yes, I've grumbled at the Compaq C RTL folks about this, and it's probably
time to grumble again. Being able to do this, though, isn't set down in any
standard, or it wasn't the last time I grumbled, so it wasn't a high
priority. (You're theoretically supposed to use only the Berkeley socket
routines on sockets, not C's normal I/O functions, but every Unix I know
lets you do it)
Dan
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