Re: RFC: adding fd-passing to win32

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo-kC51rjc0cqs1dNLGKZg6taU/[email protected]> Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:59:46 +1200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 11:51:38 +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:

> If we expose HANDLE & SOCKETs directly instead (both in APIs and
> protocol), we don't need to juggle with the fd back/forth mapping and
> potential guesses & pitfalls.

If you are going to create a custom protocol that only works on one
proprietary platform (Windows), then perhaps don’t call it “D-Bus”. Call
it something else.

And work on it elsewhere. Because I for one do not see this as what a
“Free Desktop” is supposed to be about.