+ * @return The socket engine name
+ */
+ virtual std::string GetName();
+
+ /** Returns true if the file descriptors in the
+ * given event handler are within sensible ranges
+ * which can be handled by the socket engine.
+ */
+ virtual bool BoundsCheckFd(EventHandler* eh);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets accept(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd This version of the call takes an EventHandler instead of a bare file descriptor.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ virtual int Accept(EventHandler* fd, sockaddr *addr, socklen_t *addrlen);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets close(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd This version of the call takes an EventHandler instead of a bare file descriptor.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ virtual int Close(EventHandler* fd);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets close(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ virtual int Close(int fd);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets send(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd This version of the call takes an EventHandler instead of a bare file descriptor.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ virtual int Send(EventHandler* fd, const void *buf, size_t len, int flags);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets recv(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd This version of the call takes an EventHandler instead of a bare file descriptor.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ virtual int Recv(EventHandler* fd, void *buf, size_t len, int flags);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets recvfrom(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd This version of the call takes an EventHandler instead of a bare file descriptor.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ virtual int RecvFrom(EventHandler* fd, void *buf, size_t len, int flags, sockaddr *from, socklen_t *fromlen);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets sendto(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd This version of the call takes an EventHandler instead of a bare file descriptor.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.
+ */
+ virtual int SendTo(EventHandler* fd, const void *buf, size_t len, int flags, const sockaddr *to, socklen_t tolen);
+
+ /** Abstraction for BSD sockets connect(2).
+ * This function should emulate its namesake system call exactly.
+ * @param fd This version of the call takes an EventHandler instead of a bare file descriptor.
+ * @return This method should return exactly the same values as the system call it emulates.