Detecting a running instance under Windows works (was: Re: [Geany] Removed old FIFO code)

[Enrico Tröger]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:18:57 +0200, Enrico Tröger
<enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> 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 ;-).
Yestderday I got my laptop with a running Windows back and today I got
the socket running under Windows(wasn't much work).
It seems to work, even under Windows XP with enabled firewall. But I
didn't test it very well.

And Alexandre, if you succeed in learning about DDE, I'd give it a try
although the socket code seems to work.

Regards,
Enrico

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