From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some findings and suggestion about Emacs on w32 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:14:45 +0100 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 1098620129 10765 80.91.229.6 (24 Oct 2004 12:15:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:15:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 24 14:15:15 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 1CLhHH-0005Ou-00 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:15:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhOr-0007ku-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:23:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhOj-0007jB-FO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:22:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhOi-0007ib-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:22:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CLhOi-0007iU-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:22:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CLhH1-0001YQ-9z; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 08:14:59 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9OCEvnF024250; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:14:57 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A83FDDD3A; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:14:57 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Guy Gascoigne-Piggford In-Reply-To: <417AA9D8.6080600@wyrdrune.com> (Guy Gascoigne-Piggford's message of "Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:58:32 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) 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:28823 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28823 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. Thanks. I think the main area that needs porting is the use of unix domain sockets for communicating between emacsclient and the server. 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.