From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id HAA30772; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:15:18 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA31261 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:15:17 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from web41206.mail.yahoo.com (web41206.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.39]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i2K6FFHd009499 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:15:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20040320061515.32115.qmail@web41206.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.242.203.84] by web41206.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:15:15 PST Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:15:15 -0800 (PST) From: Vasili Galchin Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Completeness of "Unix" run-time library To: Sven Luther , james woodyatt Cc: Vasili Galchin , caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20040319101936.GB21455@lambda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 run-time:01 sven:01 sven:01 luther:01 luther:01 2004:99 woodyatt:01 otherlibs:01 mli:01 posix:01 api:01 mli:01 lacking:01 bug:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 258 Hi Sven, There is one guy, Georgi (I don't know how to say in French only on Russian), who IMO did a very nice job on IPV6. I personally want this stuff folded into the OCAML source. That is why I started this thread, i.e. to light a fire under somebody. Georgi did this last year(!!), but still not in OCaml source base! Regards, Vasili --- Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:59:20AM -0800, james > woodyatt wrote: > > On 09 Mar 2004, at 09:30, Vasili Galchin wrote: > > > > > > I have yet to finish reading through > otherlibs/unix/unix.mli. I > > >kind of consider this POSIX API support. In any > case, is there is a > > >consensus that what is in unix.mli is complete? > Or does new > > >functionality have to be added? If so, what? > > > > I think the Unix module could be regarded as > incomplete. > > > > The tactic I have taken with this problem is to > regard the Unix library > > in the Ocaml distribution as the property of > INRIA. It has what it > > has, and it will get what INRIA decides is missing > when the INRIA team > > decides to put it there. > > > > I found the support for socket options to be > lacking. I wanted IPv6 > > I also have a bug report open against the debian > ocaml package asking > quite intently for IPv6 supoprt, also claiming ocaml > to be 'useless' to > him until it would support IPv6. > > Is there any IPv6 support planed in the near future > ? I know this > discussion did already happen, but i guess nothing > came of it back then. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > > ------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: > http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners