From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Port of Emacs client / server programs to Windows NT Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:16:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20061028090605.GA16477@janet> <20061030072212.GA2665@janet> <4545BE58.9010807@student.lu.se> <20061030091141.GA3106@janet> <4545C61E.4050503@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162203498 2494 80.91.229.2 (30 Oct 2006 10:18:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:18:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Neil Roberts , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 30 11:18:16 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 1GeUDN-00029d-VO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:17:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeUDN-0001Vq-8u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:17:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeUCy-0001UY-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:17:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GeUCu-0001RP-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GeUCt-0001Qy-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.235] (helo=pfepa.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GeUCt-0005wl-11 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepa.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id A7416FAC0AD; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:17:20 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <4545C61E.4050503@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Mon\, 30 Oct 2006 10\:30\:06 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (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:61371 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman writes: > Juanma, I know very well that you have got the TCP version working now > (since I have tested it), but are not the arguments above compelling? > It looks to me like pipes is better to use on w32. That will avoid the > security problems that could arise with TCP. Emacs core does not support named pipes, so server.el cannot use them. So there's no current alternative to TCP for W32. We may add named pipes in Emacs 23. IMO, we should add the tcp support in Emacs 22 (before the next pretest). -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk