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: Some findings and suggestion about Emacs on w32 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:46:42 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <008d01c4b886$32d07ff0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <417AA9D8.6080600@wyrdrune.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098622030 14834 80.91.229.6 (24 Oct 2004 12:47:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 14:47:02 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CLhm1-0006cW-00 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:47:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhtc-0007Vi-KW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhtS-0007Uo-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:54:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhtR-0007UR-LP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhtQ-0007UL-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CLhlc-00065H-WD; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id E13A42628C9; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:46:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Guy Gascoigne-Piggford In-Reply-To: (Jason Rumney's message of "Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:14:45 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28827 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28827 Jason Rumney writes: > Guy Gascoigne-Piggford writes: > >> I'd be more than happy to take a look at the two of them again and see >> what needs to be done to get emacsclient up and running on >> Windows. That said I've been very happy with what gnuclient offers, >> which is why I've not bothered changing it for quite a long time - >> heck I think that the download on my site is dated something like >> 1996. >> >> Anyway I'll take a look at see what's involved. IIRC it has been discussed here on the list before. > > Thanks. I think the main area that needs porting is the use of > unix domain sockets for communicating between emacsclient and the > server. Notice that the server is built-in using make-network-process. As emacs doesn't support mail slots, you need to find an alternative. I recall a discussion on emacs-devel about adding mailslots support in make-network-process. Try google for it. > I think there are some security issues with changing to > TCP or UDP sockets (this has been discussed in the past too), so > mailslots are probably the best replacement on Windows. Try google for those too. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk