i am in need of setting some socket options. specifically, i am interested in setting send and receive socket level buffer sizes. these numbers can affect network throughput performance significantly. i am writing some high performance network apps and the lack of socket option API is getting in the way. i could import shared library but i think perhaps newLISP needs these things in the socket API. that allows more portable way of setting options (winsock and BSD style )
any thoughts?
you can easily import setsockopt() from libc, on OS X:
setsockopt <95446B74>
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all parameters except for optionPtr are streight forward integers. The option value is passed as a ptr. So you would do:
(set 'optionPtr (pack "ld" SO_SNDBUF))
and then pass optionPtr as the parameter and option length would be 4.
Lutz