Why ACE has not provided the RAW socket implemention

[smithAchang]

Although using epoll mechanism， I can create many udp sockets.

But for condsidering the file handle limit by OS and some config related reason, raw + udp protocol socket can provide some advantages,.

Why ACE has not provided the RAW socket implemention ?

Can ACE support the feature in the future?

thx :)

ACE_ICMP_Socket is similiar but can not be used directly

[jwillemsen]

It seems nobody has created an ACE abstraction for raw sockets, feel free to create one and contribute it back to ACE (including tests)

[smithAchang]

I find there is a easy way to implement the raw socket class by reusing some codes from the ACE_ICMP_Socket class.
Maybe we also can redesign the the ACE_ICMP_Socket class to make ACE_RAW_Socket as his parent class

Can ACE maintaining team implements the work ? thx :)

[shuston]

ACE improvements are driven by users' need and contributions of either funding or the actual code. If you develop the ACE_RAW_Socket changes and submit a pull request it will be considered. Please make sure that you follow the ACE coding guidelines and create a set of tests for it in the ACE_wrappers/tests directory.

[smithAchang]

OK
I will provide the work in the future , but maybe need a long delay

By the way , where can I find the ACE coding guidelines ? I find no related item in Wiki

[smithAchang]

how can I build the ACE code based the source code from github ?

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must I download the tar from officesite to setup the compiling dependencies ?

[smithAchang]

I have got it !!!

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Building and Installing ACE

git clone [email protected]:DOCGroup/ACE_TAO.git

export ACE_ROOT=/path/to/ACE_wrappers
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ACE_ROOT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

echo "ace/config-linux.h" > $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h
echo "include $(ACE_ROOT)/include/makeinclude/platform_linux.GNU" > $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU

cd $ACE_ROOT

if [ ! -d MPC ]; then
git clone https://github.com/DOCGroup/MPC.git MPC
fi

if [ add some new file ]; then
modify the $ACE_ROOT/ace/ace.mpc
fi

$ACE_ROOT/bin/mwc.pl -type gnuace ACE.mwc

cd $ACE_ROOT

make