Re: Preserving object props on sockets
Mike Gran <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Sep 2013 15:07:58 -0700 (PDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.serveez.bugs |
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> After much thought, i've decided that it is best to explicitly NOT > support object properties on UDP and ICMP (generally, connectionless) > sockets.=A0 This is motivated partly by implementation difficulty and > partly by philosophical considerations (i.e., does "object identity" > make sense for such a socket, and if so, could it be possible that > the meaning may be application-dependent?). > = > I think if the information of interest for the client code is the remote > address (for instance) of a connectionless socket, the client code > should be responsible for extracting that from the socket object and > stick it in a hash table (or whatever), directly. > = > Does that sound reasonable? Works for me.