Re: [liblo] TCP

Hi Steve,

It's really nice to have a keep-alive TCP connection of OSC server.

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:59:58 -0500
"Stephen Sinclair" <rad...@gm...> wrote:

> So that tells me it might be better to leave them open, so I tried
> this.  It worked for a single connection, by adding a
> "connected_socket" member to the lo_server structure, and polling that
> instead of the "socket" member.  However, I quickly realized that this
> would mean that lo_server would need a data structure to track _all_
> open sockets.

Common server programs using TCP have the same data structure to track them.
For blocking server, you can use select() system call.

> I'll probably play with it a little more this week, but any ideas are
> welcome.  Does anyone have any experience with other TCP
> implementations of OSC?  I'd like it if TCP was useable between
> different implementations.

OscP5 seems to have a keep-alive TCP connection support. I just quickly
read the source and didn't test it.

Kentaro