Re: [libmicrohttpd] Real Windows support?

[LRN]

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On 23.10.2013 21:50, Nils Durner wrote:
> Am 23.10.2013 um 19:31 schrieb Christian Grothoff wrote:
>> On 10/16/2013 05:50 PM, Luke-Jr wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:19:09 PM Evgeny Grin wrote:
>>>> Win32 sockets itself are mostly compatible.
>>>> But 'select' on win32 can be used only on sockets, while MHD use it for
>>>> pipes too,
>>>
>>> I use sockets in place of pipes to workaround this:
>>>    http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bfgminer.git/tree/util.c#n2626
>>>
>>
>> This does sound reasonable to me, and if that approach allows us to
>> get rid of plibc and make everyone happy, I'm fine with it.  However,
>> I won't do this myself as I don't do W32 development and thus could
>> not reasonably test this.  I would also ask that any patch provided
>> to do this should be run by LRN and/or Nils just to make sure we don't
>> have unexpected regressions.
>>
> 
> as the PlibC implementation of select() does more than just interleave
> between Windows' select() and pipe polling, I don't see how "getting
> rid of plibc" would actually make sense (other than to please the
> masses ;-)).
> OTOH, using a socket instead of a pipe does make sense (because
> aforementioned interleaving would not take place anymore). I had
> planned to hack on this (and 64-bit safety as pointed out by Evgeny)
> already, but Ubuntu distupgrade mayhem got in my way.

I don't know how to break it out to you...but libmicrohttpd does not use
pipes on W32 anymore. As of svn r28516 (2013-08-12), it uses a pair of
sockets.

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