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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add read-cache--daemon
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 20:49:56 +0700
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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What do you think is a good replacement for unix socket on Windows?
>> It's only used to refresh the cache in the daemon, no sensitive data
>> sent over, so security is not a problem. I'm thinking maybe just
>> TCP/IP server, but that's going to be a system-wide daemon.. Perhaps
>> the windows daemon could just monitor $GIT_DIR/index and refresh it?
>
> Windows has support for Named Pipes, which seems like the right kind
> of communication channel. However, the programming model differs quite
> a bit from unix-sockets:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365594%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Yeah that was my first option, but if code cannot be shared to
differences then we probably should go another way. The old
FindWindow/PostMessage still works with modern Windows, right? Maybe
we could create a window with a name derived from the daemon's pid and
save the name in the index, then PostMessage can signal the daemon. On
the UNIX front, we store pid and send SIGUSR1 instead..The good thing
here is the Git side will be very simple (PostMessage vs kill).
-- 
Duy