Chat system

[Cliff Crawford]

Pada Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:32:34 -0500, Chris Armstrong bilang:
| Okay, noted. Only thing is that the chat module itself shouldn't (well, wasn't
| planned) to have anything to do with sockets. inetd handles connections
| and just starts my game, and the chat system is just a plugin to my game..
| Although I guess I could still use the select thing.. Maybe with named pipes?
| (I don't know much about those.)

Well, you're going to have to have some way of communicating between
the server and the plugin anyway.  I don't know much about named pipes
either, but I'm pretty sure you could call select() on them.
There's also a method for curses windows, nodelay(), which will cause
getch() to be non-blocking.  Using this, you wouldn't even need select()
at all, you could just take turns polling the keyboard and the server.


| or maybe I'll just set up a socket server for the chat module that only gets
| local connections, although I really don't want to do this.


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