2009/3/11 Steven Edwards <winehac...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:53 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I thought Cygwin had long had sendmsg/recvmsg: > According to Microsofts documentation (thanks Thunderbird) > Vista/Windows Server 2008 and the Subsystem for Unix applications is > supposed to support this so we might actually have a chance at seeing > Wine run on Windows soon. I have a regression test for passing file > descriptors with sendmsg/recvmsg I am working on that should be ready > in a few more days and will post it. I'll test with Cygwin and SFU > under Windows XP. Hopefully someone with Vista and Windows Server 2003 > or 2007 can test for us. SUA for Windows 7 should be available around RC time: http://blogs.msdn.com/sfu/archive/2009/01/23/nfs-and-sua-in-windows-7.aspx (I've been experimenting with the Windows 7 beta. I'll have to hold off on more of that until I have a spare machine with the ridiculous quantities of memory it wants to run without great pain. Stupidly fat. Pretty, though.) Vista/Win7 is where Wine on Windows would actually be useful to users, of course - given Wine targets XP already. - d.
