On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > It seems ECORE_CON_LOCAL_* is broken on Windows given reports on > efreetd not working there, the code is very different from other > protocols, see ecore_con_local_win32.c > > Since I will replace Ecore_Con_Server with a wrapper on top of > Efl_Net, I'm wondering what to do... I don't have a windows machine or > windows development environment to write a new Efl_Net set of class > for it (if you do, please talk to me so I can get an SSH access). > > More than that, looking at local_win32.c I wonder how that would work, > since unlike UNIX path, it doesn't encode the service name/port in the > path, but the process id (I guess it's like the PID), thus one process > won't find the other... > > That's to say that legacy compatibility is not an issue in that case. > > Then what I propose to write an Efl_Net_Local_Fallback that uses a > local path to encode a localhost (127.0.0.1) TCP port. Then the logic > would be: > > - server: bind(127.0.0.1:0), getsockname() to check the port, > fprintf(fp, "%hu\n", ntohs(addr.sin_port))... \n is used to avoid > partial writes (unlikely) to file. > > - dialer (client): fopen() + fread() + verify trailing \n, then > connect to 127.0.0.1:$port > > - path is encoded like in UNIX, just "/" is replaced with "\" for > windows. "~" is also handled like in Windows, such as User\username... > > Then it would provide some usable solution where a native local > communication is not available... Of course this is fully testable on > UNIX as well, then we don't rely on Windows to test it. > > Agreed?
no. named pipes are used. The name of a named pipe must have the following scheme : \\.\pipe\mypipename on local computer (or \\servername\pipe\mypipename on a remote computer) you keep thinking that unix and windows are the same... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
