[MPlayer-dev-eng] latest mingw network patch

[Wojtek Kaniewski]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] flo/yepyep wrote:
> that might not be a very good thing to do if you wish to easily port
> the network code to windows later, since winsock only has recv/send
> and closesocket. the better idea is to use recv/send from the start
> (also for clarity what they do).

when winsock2 was released, i've read some article about it. it said
that one of the advantages of winsock2 is the fact, that sockets can
be handled like regular files with read() and write(), just like on
unix systems. is it true?

regards,
wojtek