On Unix systems, sockets are like file descriptors, and file descriptors
are usually shared among child processes.
This means, that if we spawn a subprocess (or we fork) like we do in the
editor, open file descriptors will leak to the new process.
This causes issue with sockets as they might remain open and bound
(listening) when the original process closes.
Unified BSD and Winsock sockets into a single implementation of a
generic NetSocket interface.
This is some ground work for few network improvements:
- Reuse as much code as possible between Posix and Windows.
- Provide a single point of implementation for exotic sdks (consoles).
- Provide platform agnostic StreamPeerTCP and PacketPeerUDP in core.
- Implement connect for UDP allowing for DTLS implementation.
Fabio Alessandrelli
qarmin
Rémi Verschelde