On May 29, 2018 9:44:09 PM EDT, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/12/19/af_unix-comes-to-windows/ > >The latest Windows 10 update shipped with AF_UNIX socket support for >win32 >sockets. > >It's not that exciting because it doesn't support socketpair() or fd >passing - yet. So really it doesn't offer us much more than we can >already >get with win32 named pipes. We can - and do - already get fd passing >with >DuplicateHandle anyway. > >Still, I thought it was interesting. We could probably just >conditionally >enable AF_UNIX sockets on new enough windows SDKs. Apparently if it's >not >supported by the OS runtime you get a graceful error.
Last time I checked it didn't support transporting user identification though. Which means not that much value would be added. Is that still the case?
Right, so it is. I missed that.
They implemented unix sockets, except the interesting bits.
