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Documentation for connect-socket-no-wait and connect-socket-successful?.

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mainzelm 2002-11-27 07:56:37 +00:00
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@ -222,7 +222,20 @@ connected at all if the remote address is specified with each
may be disassociated from a remote address by connecting to a null
remote address.
\end{desc}
\defun {connect-socket-no-wait} {socket socket-address} \boolean
\defunx {connect-socket-successful?} {socket} \boolean
\begin{desc}
Just like \ex{connect-socket}, \ex{connect-socket-no-wait} sets up a
connection from a \var{socket} to a remote \var{socket-address}.
Unlike \ex{connect-socket}, \ex{connect-socket-no-wait} does not
block if it cannot establish the connection immediately. Instead it
will return \sharpf{} at once. In this case a subsequent \ex{select} on
the output port of the socket will report the output port as ready
as soon as the operation system has established the connection or as
soon as setting up the connection led to an error. Afterwards, the
procedure \ex{connect-socket-successful?} can be used to test
whether the connection has been established successfully or not.
\end{desc}
\defun {bind-socket} {socket socket-address} \undefined
\begin{desc}
\ex{bind-socket} assigns a certain local \var{socket-address} to a