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Hi,
I've come accross the prim_inet module in some code and I'm trying to
understand what it does as it doesn't seem to have a man page.
Going by a few posts I've googled, it seems to handle socket
connections in a non-blocking fashion and also seems to abstract UDP,
TCP and SCTP to a common receiving/sending interface.
Does anybody know of any documentation, examples or even a general
explanation for prim_inet?
Thanks,
Ben
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:07 am |
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Hi,
prim_inet is not documented because it is not intended to be a
supported/stable API which we will keep backwards compatible.
prim_inet is only supposed to be used by modules such as gen_udp,
gen_tcp, gen_sctp, inet etc. which are supported and documented API's.
If important functionality is missing in the supported API's it should
be added there and probably in a slightly different way than in
prim_inet (but built on prim_inet).
The general principle that we follow is that what's not documented is
not supported and tested and might change, dissapear or whatever
between releases.
/Kenneth (Erlang/OTP team at Ericsson)
On 7/15/07, Ben Hood <0x6e6562@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've come accross the prim_inet module in some code and I'm trying to
> understand what it does as it doesn't seem to have a man page.
>
> Going by a few posts I've googled, it seems to handle socket
> connections in a non-blocking fashion and also seems to abstract UDP,
> TCP and SCTP to a common receiving/sending interface.
>
> Does anybody know of any documentation, examples or even a general
> explanation for prim_inet?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
> _______________________________________________
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> http://www.erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:41 am |
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Hi,
> prim_inet is not documented because it is not intended to be a
> supported/stable API which we will keep backwards compatible.
> prim_inet is only supposed to be used by modules such as gen_udp,
> gen_tcp, gen_sctp, inet etc. which are supported and documented API's.
Fair enough.
> If important functionality is missing in the supported API's it should
> be added there and probably in a slightly different way than in
> prim_inet (but built on prim_inet).
Is it possible though there is functionality prim_inet that is not
exposed or consumed by the exported APIs (i.e. why would I find code
that uses prim_inet directly)?
Also, it is possible to summarize in a few lines what it does (just
for interest's sake)?
> The general principle that we follow is that what's not documented is
> not supported and tested and might change, dissapear or whatever
> between releases.
Understood.
Thanks,
Ben
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