On 30 May 2018 at 09:53, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > > On May 29, 2018 9:44:09 PM EDT, Craig Ringer <cr...@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. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
