From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Port of Emacs client / server programs to Windows NT Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:59:33 +0100 Message-ID: <85r6wqk496.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20061028090605.GA16477@janet> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162170061 20008 80.91.229.2 (30 Oct 2006 01:01:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Neil Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 30 02:00:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeLWB-0000EO-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:00:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeLWB-0003Ks-FE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:00:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeLVz-0003J7-Np for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeLVz-0003IU-Af for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeLVz-0003IR-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GeLVy-0004yU-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:00:34 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GeLVy-0003Yq-6m; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:00:34 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 1F8B21C452C6; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:59:33 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun\, 29 Oct 2006 19\:56\:30 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:61358 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> The advantages of using named pipes instead of TCP are: > > It has some disadvantages as well: > > - They're specific to a non-free OS. Uh what? Can you name a free general-purpose OS that does not have named pipes? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum