dbus glib win32

Peter Kümmel syntheticpp at gmx.net
Tue Dec 19 23:39:23 PST 2006


Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As I mentioned in the bug, at no point should any public API of dbus
> return the "dbus internal" fake file handle.

Yes, I know, and it's on my todo list, but currently _handle is not part
of the public API.

(Initially I thought all numbers which are related to a system object
could be called a handle, also on unix.)


> The public API may return *only* a defined Windows API object, such as:
>  - a Windows HANDLE (function should probably be named get_handle())
>  - a winsock socket (function should probably be named get_socket())
> 
> A function called get_fd() on Windows maybe would return the weird
> Windows POSIX-compat fd (as with _open() etc.) but I think it's better

Is it really POSIX only or standard C lib?

> if it just does not work to call get_fd() on Windows, i.e. treat it as
> get_unix_fd(). Windows does not have file descriptors.
> 
> Havoc
> 


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Peter Kümmel


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