Re: [linux-audio-dev] Aeolus and OSC - comments requested

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:22:43PM +0200, Alfons Adriaensen wrote:
> One thing I forgot to mention regarding /addclient : the response
> to this will include a client ID (integer) that is a required
> parameter to all polled requests for information, such as e.g.
> the list of stops. This ID identifies the client on the common
> server socket (I see no other way to do this with a single socket).

i might be missing something, but why don't you use the
client network address as a unique identifier? you can use
recvfrom(2) to extract the return address from a udp packet.

<sk>