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Networking Library
This library is inteded to provide support for networking with both
- a simple binding around the BSD sockets interface, and
- a higher-level set of predicates and functions for common patterns. This is a work in progress, and many things are unimplemented.
Copying
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TODO
+ Currently no method is provided to connect these sockets to the
standard libraries IO or stream modules.
+ sendmsg()/recvmsg().
+ Cross platform functionality (Only tested on Linux so far).
+ Non blocking support.
+ Improved name lookup / reverse lookup
+ Network layer:
+ IPv6
+ Unix domain sockets
+ Protocol layer:
+ UDP
+ SCTP
+ High level interface
Modules
+ net.
Main library module
+ net.types.
Common datatypes
+ net.sockets.
Sockets predicates. This includes the most fundermental operations
such as listen/connect.
+ net.netdb.
Network name lookups.
+ net.tcp
Deprecated module.
+ net.errno
Internal module with errno functionality.
+ echo
An example echo server (incomplete).