>The BSD api blocks while waiting for something to >happen, >only when something happens will the call return. This wouldn't allow >anything else execute.
Not fully true. You can poll for socket input, or better, use select() or pselect().
I agree with that an socket API really only makes sense when using an (RT)OS,
but for a obvious reason. Sockets were designed for Inter Process Communication,
and there is only one Process in a typical "big loop" micro app.
>It may be easier to convert your other apps to use the raw api (I'm >faced with this myself). The raw api has callbacks that execute when >something happens.
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