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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm new to Spread and this list. Currently
using Rendezvous extensively on one project, and planning to assess (again)
NDDS....also have a very primitive knowledge of HLA & DIS. Spread
looks very interesting as a potential alternative to other messaging
frameworks (no central servers, reliable multicast, etc.) that I've used for
distributed/replicated object collaberation...so I've been taking a
look....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On to my question....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does the monitor work on Win32 (NT/2K)? I've
been able to build it from 3.6.1 source -- had to insert a call to
"WSAStartup()" within an ifdef block. When I try to run locally, it
appears to free run within "E_handle_events()" -- nothing appears to block when
I step through it, and "User_command()" never appears to be called. When
running without breaks, it saturates the processor.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm running on Win2K, SP2 using Visual Studio 6, SP
5. I have built and run the spread daemon successfully. The binary
versions (3.6 distribution) of spflooder and sptuser also seem to work as
expected with default arguments (have not tried to build these yet from 3.6.1,
but seems very do-able now).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another side question....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't see any calls to "WSACleanup()" in the
source distribution. Does this lead to any strange behaviour on Win32
platforms, or does socket closure and/or process death do enough to release
resources from Winsock (I usually call it to insure the ref counter stays
consistent)?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any clues appreciated!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--Mike</FONT></DIV>
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