hit a serious blocker on windows

Hi all,
  I've hit a bit of a problem in mswindows porting: IPC uses Unix
domain sockets, which are not available on windows.

In order to proceed, I believe that we need the help of Alex to
understand whether other socket families can be used in his opinion,
and of Guido to understand what alternatives we may have on Windows to
send messages around..

Could you guys speak up?

Thanks

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    /kinkie