Re: porting code that uses NSSocketPort

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2005-09-15 13:08:13 +0100 Morgan Giddings <giddings@unc.edu> wrote:

> I am not at all clear how using an NSFileHandle would help.
>
> I have a DO based, client/server app where there can be up to 20 or  more 
> distributed processes (servers) on a cluster/grid, each talking  to the 
> "client" to perform processing and return results.  There is  extensive 
> interaction (method invocation) between these objects on  the disparate 
> machines and the client.
>
> Is that really something that can be done with NSFileHandle?

Sorry, I was under the impression that you were using NSSocketPort to send 
directly rather than using NSConnections.

No, NSFileHandle is not good for DO.

I'm used to DO processes using named ports ... in which case there is 
generally no need to work with specific TCP/IP port numbers.  However, if 
you do need to use specific port numbers for DO communications, then 
portWithNumber:onHost:forceAddress:listener: is the method to use, and you 
can easily implement the equivalent new MacOS-X method in a category if you 
like.