[nanomsg] Status of Windows IPC ?
- From: Timothee Besset <ttimo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: nanomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 21:57:07 -0500
Hello,
I am evaluating nanomsg for use in multi platform software. In particular
the IPC features were of interest to me.
I read the documentation:
http://nanomsg.org/v0.3/nn_ipc.7.html
"On Windows, named pipes are used for IPC. IPC address is an arbitrary
case-insensitive string containing any character except for backslash.
Internally, address ipc://test means that named pipe \\.\pipe\test will be
used."
And the blurb in http://nanomsg.org/documentation-zeromq.html about IOCP
and named pipes.
However now that I start to use it, I realize that the ipc unit test is
disabled on Windows, and I found this post in the mailing list:
//www.freelists.org/post/nanomsg/Interested-in-using-nanomsg,1
"However, there's a second step still missing -- implementing IPC transport
for Windows in such a way that it uses NamedPipes."
This is from six months ago - but it looks like that is still the case, no
IPC with Named Pipes on Windows?
- Shouldn't the documentation reflect what is actually implemented? It is
very misleading as things stand now. Especially if this has been the
situation for months.
- How much work does this represent, closing the loop on this and actually
getting the functionality? Using a TCP loopback is a no-go, a lot of
firewalls, antivirus/malware things will get in the way of that (we've
tried).
Best,
TTimo
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