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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Port of Emacs client / server programs to Windows NT
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:10:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwt6h6goh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061030072212.GA2665@janet> (Neil Roberts's message of "Mon\, 30 Oct 2006 07\:22\:12 +0000")

>> - They're specific to a non-free OS.
> So instead of making 'local sockets do nothing on Windows because they
> are not supported, it would seem to make sense to make it create named
> pipes because they are as close to Unix domain sockets as there is in
> Windows and they seem to be used as the equivalent.

The issue I was mentioning is just that as a general rule, if we can use
*code* non-specific to a non-free system, it's preferable.


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-30 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-28  9:06 Port of Emacs client / server programs to Windows NT Neil Roberts
2006-10-28  9:28 ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-30  0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-30  0:59   ` David Kastrup
2006-10-30  1:16     ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-30  7:22   ` Neil Roberts
2006-10-30  8:56     ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-30  9:11       ` Neil Roberts
2006-10-30  9:30         ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-30 10:16           ` Kim F. Storm
2006-10-30 10:39             ` Lennart Borgman
2006-10-30 11:00               ` Jason Rumney
2006-10-30 14:17                 ` Neil Roberts
2006-10-30 20:01                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-10-30 20:37             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-30 14:10     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-10-30  0:58 ` Stefan Monnier

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