On 05/18/2011 10:18 AM, Sam Steingold wrote: > is there such a thing as a platform without socket support? > if yes, how do I detect that after I call gl_SOCKETLIB?
Not all platforms support Unix sockets (AF_UNIX/AF_LOCAL is lacking on mingw) or IPv6 sockets (AF_INET6 is lacking on various platforms). For that matter, you could probably find a platform these days where AF_INET (IPv4) is useless, although it will probably still compile and just be a runtime failure. Other address families supported by Linux are non-standard, and unlikely to work in portable code. But pretty much every platform has some form of socket support. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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