Win32 port

Jakub Piotr Cłapa jpc at pld-linux.org
Mon Apr 10 17:08:12 PDT 2006


Curtis Maloney wrote:
> My windows programming is very rusty, but what's wrong with named 
> pipes?  I remember reading about them way back, and can't see how they 
> differ greatly from Unix sockets.  I checked up on MSDN recently, and 
> they seemed powerful enough, even including a "message" mode, treating 
> each write as a whole unit, instead of just a byte stream.
> 
> What am I missing?

AFAIK the most notable thing is probably absolutely no support for 
Windows 9x but this seems to be less of a problem nowadays. ;)


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