From: Kero <kero@...>
Date: 2005-03-29T01:49:47+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPServer

>> > Why is TCPServer inheriting from TCPSocket?  What methods on it might
>> > be used
>> > other than accept, and close?
>>
>> A TCP Server is just a socket you called listen(2) on:
>>
>>       To accept connections, a socket is first created with socket(2), a
>> will-
>>       ingness to accept incoming connections and a queue limit for
>> incoming
>>       connections are specified with listen(), and then the connections
>> are
>>       accepted with accept(2).  The listen() call applies only to
>> sockets of
>>       type SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_SEQPACKET.
> 
> Exactly my point.  So why does it inherit from TCPSocket, and more importanly 
> IO? read, write and all the variations are all not applicable, as far as I 
> can tell.

select()  works on it, iirc.

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