From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU Emacs: Client/Server Date: 29 Jan 2004 17:18:44 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040129111259.67CF418B@frontend3.messagingengine.com> <32D82A01-5253-11D8-82BB-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <20040129121313.766CE37D@frontend3.messagingengine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075389638 695 80.91.224.253 (29 Jan 2004 15:20:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Jan D." , Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 29 16:20:27 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmDxz-0004xr-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:20:27 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmDxy-00015F-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:20:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AmDxh-0003HD-Vt for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AmDxG-0003Fc-Je for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:19:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AmDwe-000317-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:19:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AmDwd-00030K-Lm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 18409 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2004 15:19:02 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 29 Jan 2004 15:19:02 -0000 Original-To: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" In-Reply-To: <20040129121313.766CE37D@frontend3.messagingengine.com> Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19542 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19542 > > PS: My understanding of GNU Emacs internals is *highly* limited. I can > contribute ideas but I may not be able to do the actual implementation. > Also, I do have MS Windows app dev exp and hence cannot comment on core > platform dependent issues. That's ok, but if you think in terms of the current mechanisms used by process.c for network services, i.e. listen, accept, and select, how hard/easy would it be to add mail slot handling to that, i.e. can you wait on connections and/or input to a mail slot at the same time as you wait for TCP connections using select? Maybe you can show me some W32 code which examplifies how a multi-connection client and server application mixing normal processes, network socket connections, and mail slot connections can be written. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk