is WASI capable of doing networking?

[andrewrk]

I don't see how these functions would work:

• socket
• accept
• bind
• listen

[sunfishcode]

Right, those functions are not currently defined.in WASI libc.

It is possible they could be added in the future, by making sockets something that get passed into a program, or possibly by providing a capability to create/bind/accept/listen to certain addresses/ports/etc. to a program.

[Qix-]

Libc doesn't include networking functionality, those are instead provided by the system for which you are developing. I don't think wasi-libc should even include those, but instead focus on being a complete and stable WASM libc IMO.

[sunfishcode]

The place to add networking support is WASI itself, which I assume will happen at some point. Once that's done, we can discuss how to add bind, accept, socket, and listen in WASI libc on top of that.