Re: NSSocketPort == BSD Socket
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-[NSSocketPort socket] returns a file descriptor. Write to it.
Init an NSFileHandle with it. (-[NSFileHandle initWithFileDescriptor:])
It's all just sockets/files/descriptors.>
> But "raw messaging" is not the same as writing raw bytes to a TCP
> stream. All that means is that you can use the standard NSPort API as
> well as using it to set up an NSConnection.
>
> You say that you've used it to talk to sockets on other platforms.
> How? The API is completely non-suitable for it. It doesn't give you a
> way to simply read or write streams. Instead it deals with arrays of
> messages. This is going to require some sort of custom framing
> protocol which means that it's not going to be able to talk to
> anything that doesn't also use that custom framing protocol. How do
> you get around that limitation?
>
> Mike -
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Kirk Kerekes <kkerekes...> wrote:> -[NSSocketPort socket] returns a file descriptor. Write to it.
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> Init an NSFileHandle with it. (-[NSFileHandle initWithFileDescriptor:])
>
>
> It's all just sockets/files/descriptors.
Well, you're not using NSSocketPort to talk to the other app in that
case. You're using NSSocketPort to create the socket, and then you're
using a completely different API to actually communicate over it.
Mike
