RFC: adding fd-passing to win32

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Thu Aug 11 00:59:46 UTC 2022


On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 11:51:38 +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:

> If we expose HANDLE & SOCKETs directly instead (both in APIs and
> protocol), we don't need to juggle with the fd back/forth mapping and
> potential guesses & pitfalls.

If you are going to create a custom protocol that only works on one
proprietary platform (Windows), then perhaps don’t call it “D-Bus”. Call
it something else.

And work on it elsewhere. Because I for one do not see this as what a
“Free Desktop” is supposed to be about.


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