No, I'm not really afraid of socket programming either. I failed to explain myself is all. I had actually planned on having to clarify. I'm just not very good with the english... Meh.

The question is really: What's the best way to implement a client object that can read and write to a socket, but that passes control back to the caller, and that passes received lines back to the caller via a set of function callbacks.

So far, I rather think I'll end up doing this with IPC and a fork() because it'll be the most portable. Well, I'm not 100% on that. Does IPC and fork even work on windows? I wouldn't know. But I do know that threads don't work everywhere.

In reply to Re: Re: non-blocking TCP/IP client object using callbacks by jettero
in thread non-blocking TCP/IP client object using callbacks by jettero

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