[Geany] Removed old FIFO code

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:09:45 -0300, "Alexandre Moreira"
<alexandream at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2006/8/30, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
> > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:52:42 -0300, "Alexandre Moreira"
> > <alexandream at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 2006/8/30, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
> > > > There is one side effect in changing the code which is actually
> > > > a big advantage:
> > > > these sockets are also available under Windows through the
> > > > Mutex system. (The code exists, but isn't tested yet. It is
> > > > copied from the Sylpheed sources, thanks)
> > >
> > > Hmmm I haven't read that before, and it is a big WOW if it does
> > > work but... can you point me anywhere to read about this way of
> > > making AF_UNIX available in Windows ? because that is just
> > > contrary to any information I was able to google for (perhaps I
> > > don't know the magic words, though).
> > Please read the code completely:
> 
> Sorry, I can't really access it here from work... they loaded a lot of
> firewall rules lately :(
> 
> > socket_fd_connect_unix() is only used for Unix-like systems, for
> > Windows socket_fd_connect_inet() will be used.
> 
> We will have to take a good look at this approach on using inet
> sockets on windows, since these XP's (and probably Vista) come with a
> noisy firewall these days...some users would be scared to see their
> IDE being flagged as trying to open an inbound connection... would
> sound like a backdoor or something.
Wow, does this firewall really block/filter such local ports? 
But firstly the code should compile and run under Windows. Let's see
what happens then ;-).


Regards,
Enrico

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