Re: MinGW port usable

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> I don't think so, but I think it should be possible to make 
> packet_write/packet_read always get a socket, by calling receive-pack and 
> upload-pack with a socket pair instead of a pair of pipes.