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Playing with windows now for some cross platform work. Trying to port my Unix domain socket service and client over.. What a mess. Win32 is an awful mess of an
by anon291 4y ago
Playing with windows now for some cross platform work. Trying to port my Unix domain socket service and client over.. What a mess. Win32 is an awful mess of an API. The named pipes are a sad shadow of domain sockets. Anonymous pipes are completely useless (can't run async), thus we have to name the copious number of pipes. What hell is this...
- kryptiskt 4y agoWindows does have AF_UNIX domain sockets these days: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-windows/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-...
- anon291 4y agoWow... that's great. Unfortunately, I need to maximize compatibility here, and it looks like this is only for newer (<6 years old?) versions of Win32.