Re: Looks like we can enable AF_UNIX on Windows now

On 30 May 2018 at 09:53, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

>
>
> On May 29, 2018 9:44:09 PM EDT, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/12/19/af_
> unix-comes-to-windows/
> >
> >The latest Windows 10 update shipped with AF_UNIX socket support for
> >win32
> >sockets.
> >
> >It's not that exciting because it doesn't support socketpair() or fd
> >passing - yet. So really it doesn't offer us much more than we can
> >already
> >get with win32 named pipes. We can - and do - already get fd passing
> >with
> >DuplicateHandle anyway.
> >
> >Still, I thought it was interesting. We could probably just
> >conditionally
> >enable AF_UNIX sockets on new enough windows SDKs. Apparently if it's
> >not
> >supported by the OS runtime you get a graceful error.
>
> Last time I checked it didn't support transporting user identification
> though. Which means not that much value would be added. Is that still the
> case?
>

Right, so it is. I missed that.

They implemented unix sockets, except the interesting bits.

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