sockets

[Ed Hilovsky]

FP requires you to purchase a separate socket license. Fine, that is a
given. We don't need to debate the "why license a client socket connection".
So, say I purchase a 5 user socket license (oh and 1 development socket
license - whatever that is ) So, logically I have a 5 user socket license
that is independent of my runtimes, I read that as I can have 5 socket
connections open. So if a process does a socket connect, that is one
connection. And, when a socketclose is issued, I don't have any sockets
connected. You can call it what you want, connected, not connected,
released, etc. there isn't a connection. So, logically, my license should
read 0 used and 5 available. But it doesn't. And that is where most people
are lost in the fuzzy logic and have the issue. I've worked with server
systems before that use sockets. When you issue a socketclose that server
drops the connections and de-increments the connected count. So, why doesn't
FP ?  
It is simple, clean and would eliminate a lot of ill feelings.

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-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces+lgf=lgfcomputers.net at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+lgf=lgfcomputers.net at lists.celestial.com] On
Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 11:50 AM
To: Nancy Palmquist
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: sockets

On 5/18/2012 11:37 AM, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
[...]
> What if each rclerk session needs to connect to two places with 
> sockets,

It doesn't matter.  One rclerk, one license.  You could open 50 sockets, and
still run on a single socket license.

> since the SOCKETCLOSE does not release the socket,

What do people mean when they say "release the socket"?

I assume you mean "release the license", but everyone seems to be stuck on
"release the socket", "reuse the socket", and so on.

> they just tied up two
> sockets.    So I would need to buy 2 sockets for every rclerk license to
> make this work.

No.  One rclerk, one license, regardless of how many sockets it uses.

[...]

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Kenneth Brody
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