[Edbrowse-dev] Ports

[Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>]

> I seem to remember Windows had something like domain sockets or
> at least some other method of IPC which doesn't involve network ports.

I really don't know.
I thought Geoff said traditional sockets were the best, perhaps only
practical form of IPC besides pipes,
but don't want to put words in his mouth so will cc to him.

> I'm not particularly comfortable with ports tbh.
> I suspect whatever we do will have to have some differences between Unix and
> windows.

Connecting using traditional sockets on network ports,
all through loopback, really doesn't bother me at all, if ports can be
reconfigured in .ebrc -
well, doesn't bother me as much as having different systems on the two OSs.
If this is the best / only way for windows,
or even a practical way on windows,
then let's just do it across the board.
We've already confirmed my socket layer works portably across both -
would probably be easy to add in udp capability if needed.
but I'm sure Geoff knows more than I do here. Other practical/flexible IPC
on Windows? Or any issues with loopback sockets in network ports?

Karl Dahlke