Re: GUnique [Was: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16]

[Marco Barisione <marco barisione org>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Is this API appropriate for GTK+ and adaptable for use with Windows
> and OS X?

OS X could use the bacon backend (that uses Unix domain sockets).

On Windows AF_UNIX is not available, but Windows has named pipes that 
are more similar to sockets than to Unix named pipes. However only the 
client part of named pipes is supported on Windows 9x/Me.
If we want to support Windows 9x/Me we could use mailslots[1] or plain 
sockets.


[1] 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ipc/base/about_mailslots.asp


--
Marco Barisione
http://www.barisione.org/