Network, sClose

[Bayley, Alistair]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glynn Clements [mailto:glynn.clements at virgin.net] 
> 
> However, even if sClose was exported, that wouldn't be of any 
> help in Jon's case, as neither of the sockets which recvFrom 
> creates are visible outside of recvFrom.

Ahh, OK. I haven't used recvFrom/sendTo yet... (trying it now) ... When I
try Jon's example with 6.2.1 (Win XP) I don't get the same error; it works
twice and then hangs (my networking code would hang if I tried to re-use a
socket that hadn't been properly closed).

Is recvFrom meant to be a one-shot function i.e. the socket is only closed
when the process exits?

Jon's second example uses listenOn/accept and handles, which is also what I
used:

>    do sock <- listenOn$PortNumber 7607; (hdl,host,port)<- accept sock; 
> s<-IO.hGetContents hdl; putStr$s; IO.hClose hdl; Network.Socket.sClose 
> sock

Network.Socket.sClose is obviously useful here, so don't you think it would
be a good idea to put it in Network? I don't see why including sClose would
imply that you should start exposing other low-level stuff. AFAICT, it is
the one little thing that's missing from Network that makes writing simple
networking code possible.

There's a lack of symmetry (closure?): you can create a socket with
Network.listenOn, but there is no corresponding close function in Network.

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