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Hello list, I noticed that the SRFI 106 draft does not mention any way of using multiple sockets. Let's take a concrete example: an IRC server. The server must be able to wait for new incoming connections and at the same time wait for already connected clients to send commands. A good quality IRC server also needs a non-blocking DNS resolver, so that it can look up the hostnames of new clients. It will also try to connect to the "ident" port of new clients, so it needs a non-blocking way to establish new connections. One way to write a server like this is by using threads or something similar. Another way is to base it around non-blocking I/O and something equivalent to the select() call from Unix, but this then needs to be integrated with a DNS resolver library. How would you suggest that SRFI 106 be used to write an IRC server? Perhaps an IRC server seems a little too complicated for this SRFI, if it aims to be simple. But most servers will need some aspect of what I have described. Regards, -- GÃran Weinholt <goran@xxxxxxxxxxx> "You never give me your money, you only give me your funny paper." -- The Beatles