Re: RFC: adding fd-passing to win32

Hi

On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 11:57 AM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 11:35:54 +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>
> > With the addition of AF_UNIX socket support, Windows developers have
> > shown interest in adding more features over time (
> >
> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-windows/#unsupportedunavailable
> ),
> > including SCM_RIGHTS/fdpass.
>
> Fun fact: Windows NT (supposedly) had a POSIX-compatible layer in its
> early days. But that seems to have bitrotted away over time.
>
> Given that the Windows kernel has become so complex that every time
> Microsoft adds a new feature or even just a new bugfix, the odds are
> good that it adds new bugs as well, I wonder when they will realize that
> WSL2 offers them an easier way out -- get rid of the Windows kernel
> altogether, and reimplement Windows APIs as a compatibility layer on top
> of the Linux kernel.
>
> I suspect there are already some within Microsoft who are considering
> this.
>


Ahah, that might be a fun challenge that some crackerjacks would be willing
to participate in, but I doubt it :) There is a whole world of vendors &
manufacturers around the Windows kernel (at least for PC) to start with.

-- 
Marc-André Lureau