Re: hit a serious blocker on windows

hm...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741565%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

However it's a completely different implementation concept, for which
probably we don't have an abstraction :\

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 09/08/11 23:59, Kinkie wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> I recall learning years ago about a Windows alternative that might be usable
> here for passing socket handles. But I fail to remember exactly what it is.
>
> Everything else SMP uses the channels for can be duplicated with TCP
> sockets. Open a TCP socket saving its IP:port details, fork the child,
> connect() from child to the parents socket address. AFAICT squid ipcCreate()
> already tries to do this when the it is told to use TCP.
>
> Amos
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