Module dlib.network.socket

Platform-independent socket API

Functions

Name	Description
wouldHaveBlocked()	Checks if the last error is a serious error or just a special behaviour error of non-blocking sockets (for example an error returned because the socket would block or because the asynchronous operation was successfully started but not finished yet).

Interfaces

Name	Description
ConnectionOrientedSocket	Interface with common fileds for stream and connected sockets.

Classes

Name	Description
Address	Socket address representation.
ConnectedSocket	Socket returned if a connection has been established.
OverlappedConnectedSocket	Socket returned if a connection has been established.
Socket	Class for creating a network communication endpoint using the Berkeley sockets interfaces of different types.
SocketException	SocketException should be thrown only if one of the socket functions returns -1 or SOCKET_ERROR and sets errno, because SocketException relies on the errno value.

Enums

Name	Description
SocketError	Error codes for Socket.

Manifest constants

Name	Type	Description
IOC_IN		Copy parameters into.
IOC_INOUT		Copy parameter into and get back.
IOC_OUT		Copy parameters back.
IOC_VOID		No parameters.