Network.recvFrom strangeness
Simon Marlow
simonmar at microsoft.com
Tue Sep 23 15:32:51 EDT 2003
> The declaration of Network.recvFrom looks strange:
>
> recvFrom :: HostName -> PortID -> IO String
>
> I thought that recvFrom should _return_ the address of the peer, not
> require it as an argument? At least that's what the corresponding
> 4.4BSD routine does:
Network.Socket.recvFrom is what you want, probably. Network.recvFrom is
of dubious utility.
Cheers,
Simon
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