Extra checking that the fd's we pass to SocketEngine::AddFd were added (a lot of...

[user/henk/code/inspircd.git] / include / socketengine.h

diff --git a/include/socketengine.h b/include/socketengine.h
index 734aa1938a5d0f85803c07f469e862df0e19c27c..a788618a27a47ceb6a5d6f6c2018c40396ccb26d 100644 (file)
--- a/include/socketengine.h
+++ b/include/socketengine.h
@@ -35,13 +35,12 @@ const char X_LISTEN             = 1;
 const char X_ESTAB_CLIENT       = 2;
 const char X_ESTAB_MODULE       = 3;
 const char X_ESTAB_DNS          = 4;
-const char X_ESTAB_CLASSDNS    = 5;
 
 /**
  * To indicate that a socket is readable, we
  * mask its top bit with this X_READBIT value.
  * The socket engine can handle two types of
- * socket, readable and writeable (error sockets
+ * socket, readable and writeable (;error sockets
  * are dealt with when read() and write() return
  * negative or zero values).
  */
@@ -55,6 +54,15 @@ const char X_READBIT            = 0x80;
  * from system to system and upon the config
  * settings chosen by the server admin. The current
  * version supports select, epoll and kqueue.
+ * The configure script will enable a socket engine
+ * based upon what OS is detected, and will derive
+ * a class from SocketEngine based upon what it finds.
+ * The derived classes file will also implement a
+ * classfactory, SocketEngineFactory, which will
+ * create a derived instance of SocketEngine using
+ * polymorphism so that the core and modules do not
+ * have to be aware of which SocketEngine derived
+ * class they are using.
  */
 class SocketEngine : public Extensible
 {