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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problems with native Unix domain sockets on Win 10/2019
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:30:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7fb70a75-8557-6c95-27fa-697c92dcedce@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f46a8b81-5e5c-f84e-522c-fc322ffb6bdf@oracle.com>

On 2/7/2021 2:35 PM, Michael McMahon via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi Ken, Corinna
> 
> Sorry for the delay in responding. I have just tested the fix and it works 
> great. Thank you very much for looking into it.
> 
> When do you think it would be available in a form that regular users would be 
> able to update/install?

Corinna decides when to make a new Cygwin release.  My best guess is "pretty soon".

> Also, one observation FYI, is that the "ls -l" command on Unix normally 
> indicates sockets with an "s" as the first character of the output: eg
> 
> srwxr-xr-x  1 Michael None         0 Feb  7 11:19 foo.sock
> 
> Currently, what is shown on Cygwin is
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 Michael None         0 Feb  7 11:19 foo.sock
> 
> indicating a regular file.

Right.  From Cygwin's point of view, it is a regular file.  There might come a 
time when Cygwin's AF_UNIX implementation makes use of native Windows AF_UNIX 
sockets on systems that support them.  But that time is not currently in sight.

Ken

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-08 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-23 11:25 Michael McMahon
2020-09-24 11:26 ` Ken Brown
2020-09-24 12:01   ` Michael McMahon
2020-09-24 17:11     ` Brian Inglis
2020-09-25 13:19     ` Ken Brown
2020-09-25 14:29       ` Michael McMahon
2020-09-25 14:37         ` Eliot Moss
2020-09-25 16:13           ` Michael McMahon
2020-09-25 16:32             ` Eliot Moss
2020-09-25 18:50         ` Ken Brown
2020-09-25 20:30           ` Ken Brown
2020-09-26  0:31             ` Duncan Roe
2020-09-26  1:22               ` Ken Brown
2020-09-26  7:30             ` Michael McMahon
2020-09-28 11:03               ` Michael McMahon
2021-01-30 16:00                 ` Ken Brown
2021-01-31 23:30                   ` Michael McMahon
2021-02-01 15:04                     ` Ken Brown
2021-02-01 15:10                       ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-02-07 19:35                         ` Michael McMahon
2021-02-08 15:30                           ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-03-16 11:06                             ` Sv: " sten.kristian.ivarsson
2021-03-16 13:00                               ` Michael McMahon
2021-03-16 15:19                                 ` Ken Brown
2021-03-17 12:47                                   ` Sv: " sten.kristian.ivarsson
2021-03-17 15:47                                     ` Ken Brown

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