socket.recvfrom() & sendto()
Courageous
jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Wed May 9 00:45:25 EDT 2001
>Not to pick a nit, but doesn't execution stall at select() if
>there is no data coming in to the server. For example: a small
>chat server when no one happens to be chatting.
Asyncronous event-driven programs of this sort typically solve
this by initiating a time thread which then writes a wakeup connect
through one of the file descriptors which select is listening on;
the file descriptor is usually set up early for just this purpose.
C//
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