[Chicken-users] simple sockets

[felix]

Hello!

I have worked a little on a portable socket library. It implements
the PLT API (tcp-listen, tcp-accept, tcp-connect, etc.) and seems to
work properly on all systems I've tested (Linux, FreeBSD, Win32 VC++/cygwin).

Please take a look at

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/tcp.scm

It's pretty easy to use:

;;; server:
(define x (tcp-listen 4242))
(define-values (i o) (tcp-accept x))
; wait...
(write-line "123" o)
(read-line i)
; prints: abc

;;; client:
(define-values (i o) (tcp-connect <hostname> 4242))
(write-line "abc" o)
(read-line i)
; prints: 123

The API should be fully compatible to PLT.

tcp-accept and any I/O on socket ports does not block
other running threads.


cheers,
felix