From: "Edmund Horner" <ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
References: <972870272 DOT 400289 AT shelley DOT paradise DOT net DOT nz> <39FF3FC1 DOT 1C19C0D2 AT bigfoot DOT com>
Subject: Re: MYSQL and DJGPP
Lines: 40
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400
Organization: Paradise Net
Message-ID: <973053602.668209@shelley.paradise.net.nz>
Cache-Post-Path: shelley.paradise.net.nz!unknown AT 203-96-148-238 DOT tnt0 DOT paradise DOT net DOT nz
X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 17:41:26 +1300
NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.96.152.26
X-Complaints-To: newsadmin AT xtra DOT co DOT nz
X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 973053603 203.96.152.26 (Wed, 01 Nov 2000 17:40:03 NZDT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 17:40:03 NZDT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Yes, I wasn't quite sure what I meant either!  At the time I believed that
libsocket gained access to Windows' sockets through channels that weren't
intended to be used by DOS application, therefore "hacking through to the
APIs".

You are quite right that I should use sockets for this task, as the MySQL
server is accessed through sockets anyway.  How silly of me!

Thanks,
Edmund.

"Richard Dawe" <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote in message
news:39FF3FC1 DOT 1C19C0D2 AT bigfoot DOT com...
> Hello.
>
> Edmund Horner wrote:
> > Are there any libraries that hack their way through to the server APIs,
> > eliminating the need for mysql.exe?  (I understand that libsocket does
> > this with windows sockets.)
>
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "hacks through server APIs" here.
> libsocket doesn't really hack its way through to any server APIs. The API
> it uses [for WSOCK.VXD] is just the Winsock API packaged differently for
> the virtual device driver environment. The constants, semantics of most of
> the calls, etc. is pretty much the same.
>
> Anyway, back to your problem: It sounds like you want something to keep
> the mysql.exe process open and just feed it your queries. This way the
> overhead of starting/stopping a process would be removed. How does
> mysql.exe work? I guess it uses some form of Windows IPC, perhaps even a
> socket. If it does use a socket, perhaps you could use libsocket to send a
> query to mysqld.exe?
>
> Bye,
>
> --
> Richard Dawe
> [ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]