ENUt

Author:

Hasselt University - Expertise Centre for Digital Media

Introduction

ENUt stands for 'EDM Network Utilities', a library meant to make network programming a bit easier.

License

The license which applies to this library is the LGPL. You can find the full version in the file LICENSE.LGPL which is included in the library archive. The short version is the following:

 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 Lesser General Public License for more details.

 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  
 USA.

Using the library

For the most part, the library contains simple C++ wrappers for BSD-style socket functions. For example, there's a nut::UDPv4Socket which can be used for sending and receiving UDP packets over the IPv4 protocol. The 'select' function is replaced by a nut::SocketWaiter class. Just take a look at the available classes, most of them will be clear immediately.

The different socket classes use some additional internal variables, which are not protected by a mutex. This means that the library is not thread safe; if a socket class is used by multiple threads, a mutex should be used to lock the socket.

Contact

The library homepage can be found at the following location: http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/enut/

You can reach the ENUt developers by sending an e-mail to enutinfo [at] edm [dot] uhasselt [dot] be