Re: RFC: adding fd-passing to win32

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo-kC51rjc0cqs1dNLGKZg6taU/[email protected]> Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:39:21 +1200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:49:02 -0300, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> I don't think making Windows more like Linux is a good objective in
> the first place. I think Windows is Windows and must be treated as
> Windows, with its limitations and differences to other Unix intact.
> It increases the porting effort, I agree, but it should make the
> resulting product nicer and more rounded once done.

So why not use high-level IPC APIs that are already Windows native, if
you want a “nicer and more rounded” product? So why bother trying to
add some oddball mutation of D-Bus, with its POSIX-centricity, to the
mix?