[SDL] Non-blocking calls in SDL_net?

[Bob Pendleton]

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 04:47, Jorge Garcia wrote:
> Is there any way to make non-blocking calls in SDL_net? It seems that 
> send/receive calls wait until everything is sent or received, and you cannot 
> know how many bytes are available for sending/receiving before calling. If you 
> use socket sets and check them you are only guaranteed that one byte(?) is 
> available and asking for more bytes in a receive call may block the thread. 
> AFAIK, some socket implementations allow a non-blocking mode which is very handy 
> if you don't want to mess with threads.

Take a look at the net2 library at:http://gameprogrammer.com/game.html.
Even if you don't use the library, the article and code tells you how to
do what you want. And, you don't really want to use non-blocking code.
Non-blocking code makes you poll for input which leads to serious
performance and synchronization problems.

		Bob Pendleton

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