[Stackless] timeout on channel receive

[Paul Sijben]

It helps somewhat :-)

What I can not find in the code is how the real socket is addressed. I
need to get recvfrom working which ought to be simple once I understand
how it works ;-)

Richard Tew wrote:
> On 2/22/07, Paul Sijben <sijben at eemvalley.com> wrote:
>> Could you please explain how stacklesssocket works. I am having problems
>> following the flow of control down to the real recv. I think I would be
>> able to add recvfrom once I understand what recv is doing.
>
> This is a very general question.  Trying to answer it might not address
> what you want to know.  I will give a general answer, but I doubt that
> it will help.  Feel free to follow up  with more specific questions :-)
>
> There are two parts to the stacklesssocket module.
>
> - The use of stackless channels to wrap callbacks, in order to make
>   the functionality provided through those callbacks accessible
>   wrapped comfortably behind a function call.
>
> - The wrapping of the asyncore module with an interface taking
>   advantage of stackless channels in order to work like the
>   socket module.
>
> And that is it.  Pretty much all of the code implements the second
> part. The first part is just such a simple thing to do with Stackless
> and its channels that it takes little code.
>
> Hope this is a start,
> Richard.

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