Re: WWWLib 3.1 & blocking I/O

>>From www-lib-request@w3.org Thu Sep 21 15:37:37 1995
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>Subject: Re: WWWLib 3.1 & blocking I/O 
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:32:04 -0400
>From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
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>> Mitch DeShields writes:
>>  > 
>>  > I'm using the WWWLib 3.1 in a Windows environment.  I'd like to use the
>>  > asynchronous winsock.  ...
>>  > 
>>  > I find that the call to connect() in HTDoConnect() returns WSAWOULDBLOCK.
>>  > 
>>  > Does my message handler need to do anything (line call LoadHTTP() again to
>>  > get back into the state machine)?
>> 
>> Assuming that WWWLib 3.1 work the same way as 3.0, you just need to
>> re-call whatever lib call you originally made (i.e. LoadHTTP) that
>> returned WSAWOULDBLOCK. 
>
>Version 3.1 does work the same way - it's basically based on call back 
>functions. What might be a bit confusing is that 3.1 is a mix between the 
>original version of call back functions and the one provided by Charlie Brooks 
>for extending it to work on NT. I have now cleaned this up and it will get out 
>in the next version so it hopefully is a lot easier to find out.
> 
>> The way the non-blocking IO mechanism works is for the load functions
>> to return either when they complete their operation, when they would
>> block waiting for input or when they get an error.
>
>Yep :-)
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>Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, <frystyk@w3.org>
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