get windows messages
Corinna Vinschen
cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Dec 24 01:50:00 GMT 2000
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 05:10:29PM +1300, Dave Sainty wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > from the Cygwin source code:
> >
> > open ("/dev/windows", flags, mode=3D0)
> > - create a unix fd for message queue.
>
> I know this is a bit after the fact, but wouldn't some kind of special
> "socket" domain/family have been more appropriate here?
>
> x = socket(PF_WINMSG, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
The /dev/windows implementation is made by Sergey Okhapkin once
when he still has contributed to Cygwin.
I have in fact no opinion here. The joke is that both solutions
(device/socket) aren't inconsistent with each other in Cygwin.
Feel free to contribute a special socket code for the windows
message queue.
Corinna
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