[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Winsock patch

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dirk Stoecker writes:
 > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
 > 
 > >  > Using my_nonblock() on something other than a socket isn't advised on
 > >  > non-UNIX systems at least.  If we ever get to include AmigaOS code in 
 > > this
 > >  > for e.g. i doubt ioctlsocket() works on files (even if AmigaOS has a 
 > > UNIX
 > >  > like file API which i doubt).
 > 
 > Well. The Socket-API is equal to Unix. At least what it is used. It is
 > based on Amiga system specifics, but these are hidden normally. As the
 > file-access is much like the way Unix accesses files it is easy to unify
 > this.
 > 
 > What do you mean with "If we ever get to include AmigaOS code in this for
 > ..."?
 > 
 > > amiga/config.h seems not to define SOCKET_ZERO_ISNT_STDIN.
 > > It seems like the Amiga socket api (which belongs not to AmigaOS) has
 > 
 > Wrong. Newer OS-versions include TCP stacks :-)
 > 
 > > read() and write() functions which can deal with sockets and files (at
 > > least stdin).
 > 
 > I'm not totally sure, but I think this is untrue. This is probably done in
 > the wrapper code supplied with amigaserver.c and amigaclient.c.
 > 
 > If it is important I will do deeper investigations (or maybe we ask
 > Sebastian :-)
I don't think we should change anything about the amigaos port since
there is no demand to have autoconf working with that port.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade