Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation/technical/api-fswatch.txt: start with outline

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 03:13:39PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

Heiko Voigt wrote:

quoted

While talking about platform independence. How about Windows? AFAIK
there are no file based sockets. How about using shared memory, thats
available, instead? It would greatly reduce the needed porting effort.

What about the git credential helper: it uses UNIX sockets, no?  How
does git-credential-winstore [1] work?

No, the main credential protocol happens over pipes to a child process's
stdin/stdout. The credential-cache helper does use unix sockets (since
it needs to contact a long-running daemon that caches the credentials),
and AFAIK is not available under Windows (but that's OK, because
Windows-specific helpers that use secure storage are better anyway).

When I introduced credential-cache, I recall somebody mentioned that
there is some Windows-equivalent IPC that can be used to emulate unix
domain sockets. The calls aren't the same, but as long as your
requirements are basically "get messages to/from the daemon", you can
probably abstract away the details on a per-platform basis.

Unfortunately I can't seem to find the original message or any details
in the archive (and I know next to nothing about Windows IPC).

-Peff