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Author SHA1 Message Date
Philip Withnall
04bbf9df37 gdatagrambased: Clarify that connection-oriented ≠ stream-based
GDatagramBased allows connection-oriented and connection-less sockets,
but does not allow stream-based sockets (because it’s datagram-based).
So it supports SCTP and UDP, but not TCP.

Clarify that in the documentation, and people sometimes confuse
connection-oriented with stream-based, due to the prevalence of TCP.
2016-08-03 18:46:29 +01:00
Philip Withnall
4e631d2e5f gio: Add GDatagramBased interface and rebase GSocket on it
GDatagramBased is an interface abstracting datagram-based communications
in the style of the Berkeley sockets API. It may be contrasted to (for
example) GIOStream, which supports only streaming I/O.

GDatagramBased allows socket-like communications to be done through any
object, not just a concrete GSocket (which wraps socket()).

This adds the GDatagramBased interface, and implements it in GSocket.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697907
2015-10-13 15:33:48 +01:00