On May 14, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Tom Holroyd wrote:
I finally added the sockets package to the octave-forge CVS (in
main/sockets).
This allows only fairly rudimentary socket support at the moment.
You can send byte strings back and forth.
The testing code uses num2str and so on, and there are some routines
for serializing a matrix; the recent changes to int8() allowing
strings would make that even easier. Eventually it should be changed
to handle more types natively.
listen/send in sockets will conflict with listen/send in miscellaneous.
I'm not sure if I'm the only one using it, but changing will mean user
retraining. I'll ask on octave-help.
You may want to make send/recv reliable --- from my reading of the man
pages the functions can stop before all the requested bytes are read.
In general I prefer a higher level interfaces (e.g., Tcl) which hides
the complexity of dealing with operating systems rather than a low
level interface (e.g., Python). This is especially bad when different
operating systems provide different interfaces, and the scripting
language blindly projects them into the scripts, making the developer
test for specific systems in their code.
- Paul