On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Colin wrote:
>
>> there are no equivalents for read and write. Are there any specific
>> reasons to not include them and/or could they be easily added?
>
> We've not had anyone ask for such functions or presented a valid use-case
> for when such functions would indeed be needed. As lots of internals in
> libcurl assume and only work with actual *sockets* I can't think of very
> many cases where you want to provide your own functions to read or write
> from sockets.
>
> Can you elaborate on your use case?

Imagine libcurl embedded in a large application that has a certain
infrastructure regarding logging and statistics etc. We would like to
instrument libcurl just above the socket in order to write a debug
message and feed the byte counters for every single read()/write() cal
on the socket, just as we do with other network operations for other
protocols.

> But no, I don't think it has to be very difficult to add such functions.

Good ;-)

Thanks, Colin
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