[fpc-devel] Unix sockets for Windows

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 5 May 2006, Alexander Todorov wrote:

> Hello,
> I have an application that uses TCP sockets nut it is going to be
> changed with UNIX sockets.
> Can you point me to some easy and clean approach how to emulate UNIX
> sockets for Windows.
> The only thing I can think of is using named pipes and encapsulate the
> functionality in some class. Any other alternative are welcome.

What cygwin does is allocate a free TCP port and write the port parameters
in the "unix" socket file. You could try to emulate it like that. 
I would be interested in seeing such an emulation.

Named pipes don't support several distinct clients, AFAIK.

Michael.