From: "Peter Remmers" <Peter DOT Remmers AT t-online DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: libsocket: difference between O_NONBLOCK and FIONBIO?
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:31:40 +0200
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Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> schrieb...

> I can't comment on other operating systems, but I think anything that
> supports the BSD socket interface should support both fcntl() and ioctl().
> They're both not exactly standard calls, ioctl() particularly.
>
> Which operating systems are you worried about?

Well, Linux, AIX, SunOS, IRIX, ...
All those OSes you can find in a university :-)

> > > Would things be clearer if the libsocket docs used 'like' instead of
> > > 'similar'? How do you think the docs could be improved?
> >
> > That would help a lot. Actually, what you just wrote would make it
> > very clear :-)
>
> OK, I'll add a note for the next release.

Good to see I could help improve something.

Peter