From: james woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>
To: The Trade <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ipv6
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:27:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E177A530-4F48-11D7-A972-000393BA7EBA@wetware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030305125936.GB17976@hilbert.house>
On Wednesday, Mar 5, 2003, at 04:59 US/Pacific, Ceri Storey wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:22:06AM +0100, Olivier Andrieu wrote:
>> I did some things on ipv6 too. I made a patch for the Unix library :
>>
>> http://oandrieu.nerim.net/ocaml/index.html#ipv6
>>
>> There's getaddrinfo and getnameinfo support and some other things too.
>
> It looks good to me, but I don't suppose it'd be possible to have it
> extensible to other address families? Myself, i'd like getaddrinfo
> etc to handle unix addresses transparently. Admittedly this isn't
> supported in any C implementation I know of, but IMHO it'd be nice.
Not to mention it would also be nice to get support for multicast,
IPsec, ICMP, etc.
The way I have been approaching this problem is to ditch the sockets
layer in the Unix library, and roll my own extensible sockets layer.
That way I can support new address families, socket types, protocols
and socket options without having to change the module signatures in
the existing library. As a bonus, I get more type safety in the socket
interface and a couple of convenience functions for manipulating socket
addresses more easily.
I doubt this approach will ever be used in the standard distribution,
though. I'm also not expecting to be able to release my code until
probably after the next OCaml release-- whenever that is.
--
j h woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-05 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-04 12:29 Yaron M. Minsky
2003-03-04 13:07 ` Francis Dupont
2003-03-04 23:51 ` Shawn Wagner
2003-03-05 9:22 ` Olivier Andrieu
2003-03-05 12:59 ` Ceri Storey
2003-03-05 20:27 ` james woodyatt [this message]
2003-03-05 20:36 ` Nicolas George
2003-03-05 15:19 ` Yaron M. Minsky
2003-03-04 13:27 Beck01, Wolfgang
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