Re: [Caml-list] Writing to a blocked socket

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2011, 18:01 +0100 schrieb David Allsopp:
> I don't seem to be able to ask Google this in a way which will give me a
> reasonable answer!
> 
> In the same process, if you have one thread blocked on a [recv] operation on
> a socket, under Unix another thread can still write to the socket. Under
> Windows, however, the call to [send] blocks because there's another thread
> blocked on a [recv] to the same socket. Are there any options that can be
> set to change that behaviour or is that just "the way it is" and the
> application has to be coded using [select] instead? 

Really? This does not make sense at all. It's quite normal that one
direction is blocked, and the other not. Are you sure about your
observation?

Gerd

> 
> 
> David
> 
> [the astute Mr Holmes may have spotted that having got ocaml-ssl built, I
> then couldn't get its stelnet example to work ;o)]
> 
> 

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