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Diffstat (limited to 'src/platform/windows/win_pipe.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/platform/windows/win_pipe.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/platform/windows/win_pipe.c b/src/platform/windows/win_pipe.c index edc4df3f..c1690991 100644 --- a/src/platform/windows/win_pipe.c +++ b/src/platform/windows/win_pipe.c @@ -10,11 +10,16 @@ #include "core/nng_impl.h" #include <stdio.h> + // Windows named pipes won't work for us; we *MUST* use sockets. This is // a real sadness, but what can you do. We use an anonymous socket bound -// to localhost and a connected peer. +// to localhost and a connected peer. This is because folks that want to +// use notification pipes (ugh) are expecting this to work with select(), +// which only supports real winsock sockets. We use an ephemeral port, +// bound to localhost; some care is taken to prevent other applications on +// the same host from messing us up by accessing the same port. -#ifdef PLATFORM_WINDOWS +#ifdef NNG_PLATFORM_WINDOWS int nni_plat_pipe_open(int *wfdp, int *rfdp) @@ -138,9 +143,4 @@ nni_plat_pipe_close(int wfd, int rfd) closesocket((SOCKET) rfd); } -#else - -// Suppress empty symbols warnings in ranlib. -int nni_win_pipe_not_used = 0; - -#endif // PLATFORM_WINDOWS +#endif // NNG_PLATFORM_WINDOWS |