Thread: WSAStartup

Is there a way to tell if WSAStartup() has been called?

by your program or another?

By my program.
I'm working on a class using sockets and need to know if it has been called, to avoid calling it again.

Reference Counting. I suspect you have some type of class wrapper or something for TCP/IP or the like. Just keep track of when you call it and when you cleanup.

thats not the problem.
This class will handle all the sockets that are
1) made by it.
2) passed to it.

here is some cut and paste.

Code:

class cNetworkConnections {
    private::

    public::
        cNetworkConnections();
        ~cNetworkConnections();
        
        void SetVersion(int major, int minor);
        const WORD GetVersion();

        /*~~~~*/// Startup functions:
            int StartService();    // ONLY use if you are have already called
                               // WSAStartup(). Otherwise use StartServiceWSA();
   	    int StartServiceWSA();
        /*~~~~*/// Shoutdown functions: house keeping

        int EndService();      // ONLY use if you are going to call WSACleanup().
                               // Otherwise use EndServiceWSA().
        int EndServiceWSA();
/*~~~~*/
        char* recv(SOCKET_ID id, char buf, int len, int flags);
        int   send(SOCKET_ID id, const char* buf, int len, int flags);

i'm going to include other methods for encription and such. that way it will be like

Code:

cNetworkConnections chatserver;
//blaaaa //blaaa
chatserver.send(clients[0], buf, sizeof(buf), 0);

Also you can pass existing sockets to this class and use all methods included.

Just to help avoid errors it would check to see if WSAStartup() has been called.

Well this may not be the best way but it should work. You can call the function "getsockopt( )" and pass in desired information to be filled in. If this function call fails with SOCKET_ERROR use WSAGetLastError( ) and see if the code is "WSANOTINITIALISED" if it is, guess what! It's not initialised. Good luck sir.

>>Is there a reason against just calling WSAStartup()

not really. I just want to avoid making the call twice.

when the class is destroyed ~cNetworkCnnections() will read if Startup() or StartupWSA() has been called and perform accordingly

>>That is, make initialization and shutdown global so it will automatically enable your network classes

are you talking about

Code:

cNetworkConnections clients;
winmain(){

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