Re: [Monotone-devel] Removing things from the database

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:35:41AM +0100, Jon Bright wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:15:41PM +0100, Christof Petig wrote:
> >
> >>It's already in the (not really up to date) ssh branch ;-)
> >>monotone sync/push/pull file:/path/x.db collection opens a pipe to a
> >>different monotone process which serves the other database.
> >
> >Yep, that's what I was thinking of :-)
> >
> >This is still blocked on not having a sensible solution for Windows
> >support, right?
> 
> Windows can't do pipes as such (afaik), but you could do 
> CreateFile/CreateFileMapping/MapViewOfFile - basically, the Windows 
> equivalent of mmap.  You could then use this shared mmaped block to pass 
> the data back and forth between the processes.  You could implement a 
> couple of wrapper functions to make this mmaped block look like a pipe 
> to the rest of the code.

Err... and how do you select()?

-- Nathaniel

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