On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:38:01PM -0700, Ryan Bloom wrote: > Aaron is actually in the middle of creating a stream pipe API for APR. > This will use Unix Domain Sockets on Unix, and pipes on Windows. While > APR requires Unix Domain Sockets, they must be done the right way.
Actually, I'm fairly certain that Windows has support for at least simple data-passing over AF_UNIX/AF_LOCAL sockets, but I'm not sure if it has the ability to pass file descriptors over those sockets. The ability to pass file descriptors *and* data is necessary to implement the spipe API that I posted a month or two ago (and which I'd like to commit as soon as I have it working on Unix). I've been assured that we'll be able to implement the spipe API under Windows with something like named pipes, but it sounds to me like we either need to support both APIs (domain sockets and spipes) or we need to come up with a way to unify the APIs. Questions for the Windows gurus: - Can AF_UNIX/AF_LOCAL sockets be used to pass other descriptors? - Would it be possible to implement the full AF_UNIX/AF_LOCAL-family socket functionality on Windows using something like named pipes? If it interests anyone, I can post a set of features that I think will be necessary for implementation of a domain socket in APR. -aaron
