Re: [Caml-list] Looking for stubs for sendmsg/recvmsg

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@eu.citrix.com> writes:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm looking for stubs for
>> 
>>        ssize_t sendmsg(int sockfd, const struct msghdr *msg, int flags);
>>        ssize_t recvmsg(int sockfd, struct msghdr *msg, int flags);
>> 
>> Specifically I need those to send (among normal messages) an
>> Unix.file_descr over a Unix Domain Socket.
>> 
>> Does anyone know of a module that has them?
>
> We have some bindings for those:
>
> https://github.com/xen-org/xen-api-libs/blob/master/stdext/unixext.mli
>
> external send_fd : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> Unix.msg_flag list -> Unix.file_descr -> int = "stub_unix_send_fd_bytecode" "stub_unix_send_fd"
> external recv_fd : Unix.file_descr -> string -> int -> int -> Unix.msg_flag list -> int * Unix.sockaddr * Unix.file_descr = "stub_unix_recv_fd"
>
> You might prefer to extract the relevant functions from the code -- there's a lot of other misc stuff in that repo which you're probably not interested in.
>
> We use those functions quite a lot so hopefully they'll work for you.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave

Neigther one is directly suitable but cut&paste into my own stub is easy
enough with that. Thanks Dave and Jérémie.

MfG
        Goswin