RE: Documentation on sockets and threads API

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 02:22 PM 2/28/2001, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
>Larry,
>
>Ugghh... Ok, thanks. I can download source and look at it. Do I have it
>already with the automated default installation procedure?


If you selected source for the cygwin package, you'll have the version that
goes with the DLL you have.  Otherwise, you can download a current snapshot 
or pull from CVS.


>Is there an relationship between
>http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xns/recv.html and the cygwin
>implementation of (for example) recv?


Don't know.  Haven't looked.


>I thought the purpose of cygwin was to minimize source code changes when
>porting from unix. Isn't there some documented flavor of unix that cygwin is
>based on?


BSD'ish probably but I can't say for sure.  Keep in mind that sockey stuff
is based on Winsock and all its glories!;-)



>      Siegfried
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:44 AM
>To: Siegfried Heintze; cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Documentation on sockets and threads API
>
>
>At 06:57 PM 2/27/2001, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> >Hi Folks,
> >  I hope this is the correct mailing list.
> >  I looked thru the Cygwin Users Guide and API refernence and found mention
> >of the socket API and the PThread API. But it was pretty brief. Where can I
> >find more detailed information that describes the arguments, return values?
> >   I specifically want to know how what header files to include and how to
> >check for errors. Do I just check errno?
> >      Thanks,
> >            Siegfried
>
>
>
>You'll want to look at the Cygwin source.
>
>
>
>Larry
>
>
>
>--
>Want to unsubscribe from this list?
>Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple


--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple