Re: MinGW port usable

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jan 30, 2007, 08:41 UTC
Message-ID: <45BF04BA.3020606@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <45BF0098.8FF978CE@eudaptics.com>

Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>>
>>> (*) The reason is that on Windows read() and write() cannot operate on
>>> descriptors created by socket(). A work-around is to implement a (threaded)
>>> proxy, but that's almost the same as if netcat were used as
>>> GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
>> Can you do
>>
>> #define read(fd, buffer, len) recv(fd, buffer, len, 0)
>> #define write(fd, buffer, len) send(fd, buffer, len, 0)
>>
>> in the appropriate file?
> 
> I doubt that recv and send can operate on regular file descriptors, as
> opened by _pipe(), open(), can they?
>

Hence "in the appropriate file", I guess.

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