[Info-vax] yet another sys$qiow question

[David Froble]

JF Mezei wrote:
> On 15-08-12 18:27, kc at kayceesoftware.com wrote:
> 
>> The next project requires use of socket ports and changing this recent card reader app to use sockets makes sense 
> 
> 
> Yes,. But remember that the IP drivers lack many functions available on
> the terminal driver, most notably the SS$M_TIMEOUT that cancels an IO
> after X seconds of not receiving the data. You now have to roll your own
> implementation with even flags for both the IO and the timer and makes
> for far less clean code.

I find timer ASTs to be rather trivial ...