Last modified on Thu Oct 21 17:05:11 PDT 1993 by sfreeman
common type for client interface to local J-Video server. The video and audio types are subclassed from it.
INTERFACEJv ; IMPORT Atom, OSError, Thread; TYPE T <: Public; Public = MUTEX OBJECT METHODS (* LL > self *) init (pipeName: TEXT): T RAISES {OSError.E}; (* establish connection with local server. "pipeName" is the name of the named unix socket which the client should connect to *) close (); (* close connection to local server, ignoring all exceptions *) END; VAR ServerFailure: Atom.T;
may be part of OSError.E list
LL >= t
PROCEDURE Send (t: T; buf: ADDRESS; nbytes: CARDINAL) RAISES {OSError.E, Thread.Alerted}; PROCEDURE Recv (t: T; buf: ADDRESS; nbytes: CARDINAL) RAISES {OSError.E, Thread.Alerted}; END Jv.