Re: Port of Emacs client / server programs to Windows NT

[Lennart Borgman]

Neil Roberts wrote:
> Granted that is true, so there would be no harm in leaving TCP support
> and presumably implementing it for the Unix build as well. However as
> the current default is to use named pipes and TCP sockets aren't even
> implemented under the regular Unix version surely that implies that
> the preferred solution is to use Unix domain sockets?
>   

It may solve another problem on w32 too. The software firewalls jumps in 
if you are using TCP. As far as I understand it this will not happen 
with pipes (but I am not sure).

Can't w32 pipes have access protection on them too?