Re: how to get a SOCKET from a source

[Diego Zuccato <diego otello alma unibo it>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> It's g_io_channel_win32_get_fd(). Despite its name, it returns the
> SOCKET for GIOChannels that have been created for SOCKETs. (And for
> GIOChannels for file descriptors, it returns the file descriptor.)
Is there a reason that makes useful to have two distinct calls for
different platforms instead of a single g_io_channel_get_fd() that works
across platforms? Shouldn't Glib/Gtk/etc be ABSTRACTION libraries?

BYtE,
 Diego.