[Ns-developers] [ns3] a synchronous socket/posix API

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 23:38 +0100, Gustavo Carneiro wrote:
> I see a file named fiber-context-sysv.c, and this makes me wonder, how
> portable is this code?  Will it also work in non-unix platforms?  Can

No, it will not work on non-unix platforms. win32 has an equivalent
functionality though and, I was told that these things are named
"fibers" there: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682661.aspx

And, no, I did not even try to verify that these would be usable to
re-implement the fiber-context.h header on win32 and left this as an
exercise to the reader :)

>  you explain roughly how it works, without getting into much detail?

I am sure that the following will explain this much better than I would:
man makecontext 
man swapcontext

regards,
Mathieu