[erlang-questions] socket argument for ssl_connection:socket_control

[Joe K]

Thanks, Danil!

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Danil Zagoskin <z@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> It's because a socket in ssl app (TLS, DTLS) is an Erlang process.
> Port is used internally only for TCP/UDP transport, and higher-level
> operations (handshake, encoding, decoding, etc.) are performed by a
> dedicated worker written in Erlang.
> A tuple you see is needed to identify that worker. It also contains some
> other data, but the main part is the worker pid.
>
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Joe K <goodjoe2049@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Why is socket not a port, but a tuple for dtls_connection?
>>
>> https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/ssl/src/ssl_co
>> nnection.erl#L164
>>
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