This is a little misleading - to my knowledge Cygwin is the only major platform that claims to be vaguely Unix-like and lacks SCM_RIGHTS or some way of passing file descriptors. Certainly the only one anyone has suggested porting tmux to.
So I would say it is a limit of Cygwin or the Windows platform that prevents tmux being ported, not an inherent limit of tmux. BTW POSIX specifies SCM_RIGHTS, although merely as "access rights" not specifically file descriptors. Still, are there any implementations that treat it as anything else? On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:52:03AM +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: > Chris Johnsen <chris_john...@pobox.com> writes: > > > Having maintained tmux as cross-platform project, you probably have > > a good feel for where the sharp cross-platform edges lurk, so > > I welcome further consideration of the right approach. I would > > certainly not attempt to claim that my implementation is definitely > > cross-platformly correct, just that it seemed like a reasonable > > approach, and that "it works for me" (for all _that_ is worth). > > tmux's portability is inherently limited anyway by the fact that it relies > on the ability to pass file descriptors over Unix domain sockets. That > prevents it from being ported to e.g. Cygwin. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
