From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: get windows messages Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 01:50:00 -0000 Message-id: <20001224105041.A7901@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <0012201413240R.28008@cygbert> <200012240409.UAA20384@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg01085.html On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 05:10:29PM +1300, Dave Sainty wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > from the Cygwin source code: > > > > open ("/dev/windows", flags, mode=3D0) > > - create a unix fd for message queue. > > I know this is a bit after the fact, but wouldn't some kind of special > "socket" domain/family have been more appropriate here? > > x = socket(PF_WINMSG, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); The /dev/windows implementation is made by Sergey Okhapkin once when he still has contributed to Cygwin. I have in fact no opinion here. The joke is that both solutions (device/socket) aren't inconsistent with each other in Cygwin. Feel free to contribute a special socket code for the windows message queue. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple