torsdag 8 december 2011

Change the channel, trip the station


GNU Classpath is very Unix-centered. This has some impact on the java-net implementation, since Unix treats kind of everything like a file -- AmigaOS does not. This means that gnu.java.net.PlainSocketImpl uses VMChannel's read() and write() methods, which calls AmigaOS functions read() and write(). These functions expects the fileDescriptor to point to a file, not a socket. So I have to make some modifications to the VMChannel, adding socket specific read and write methods. Also I have to make sure not to close any sockets using file closing functions.
Given the big difference between a socket and a file in the Amiga world its really tempting to make a completely new VMChannel only for Sockets.

2 kommentarer:

  1. @jaokim

    While there is no much comments on your blog, be sure that some of us read it quite offten with big interest about progress.

    I am personally in big interes to wait new version of jamiga to plays with.

    SvaraRadera