Re: hit a serious blocker on windows

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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