Re: [PATCH/RFC] add lame win32 credential-helper

From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Date: Sep 16, 2011, 12:59 UTC
Message-ID: <23805783.18971.1316177988773.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>
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> From: "Erik Faye-Lund" <kusmabite@gmail.com>
> To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, jaysoffian@gmail.com, gitster@pobox.com
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:48:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] add lame win32 credential-helper
> 
> > If it's too hard to adapt it to whatever IPC
> > mechanism would be appropriate on Windows, we can just leave it out
> > on that platform.
> >
> > But the core code in git itself should be pretty straight forward.
> 
> I didn't mean that it was impossible to port, just that it didn't compile
> as-is. I haven't looked into fixing up the code so it compiles on Windows
> again myself. And I'm not really planning to; I have little git-time
> these days, and little knowledge of how unix-sockets works...

This may be common knowledge, but from our brief experiment with them last fall, Windows Named Pipes are fairly similar to Unix Domain Sockets (not named FIFOs as one would expect...).  We didn't quite get a perfect replacement using preprocessor macros, but I think you can get pretty close (we eventually dumped the idea in favor of straight TCP sockets that behave the same on all our platforms of interest).

HTH, Stephen