Network in phobos

[Igor Lesik]

"Adam Ruppe"
> Something that I think would be nice is being able to treat a network
> connection the same way we can work with files and stdin.
>
IMHO, such oversimplified approach is not very useful.
Yes, it would be so nice to have a good network library, but many things
have to be considered in order to cook decent library. One important
aspect is support for asynchronous calls; for example TCP/UDP stuff
in Boost is placed in to ASIO package.

> This is just for Linux; I haven't done Windows code like this for a
> long time and I don't remember how. But this might be a useful
> starting point anyway, so I figure I'll share it.
>
As long as you use only socket API there is no problem to write generic
code for Linux and Windows. Windows socket API even has select() function.

Igor