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

[graydon hoare]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

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

oh, the win32 API is really not as lame as the standard charicature 
makes it out to be; it's just really large and a bit baroque. you might 
think of it like, say, "the API in which every proposal for posix was 
accepted". it absolutely has pipes and a select-workalike. and several 
other IPC mechanisms which posix doesn't. I was just pointing out that 
some small parts of christof's stuff might need adjustment to work on 
windows. if mingw32 has done its job right, there may be no adjustment 
needed. but we'll need to check.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/ipc/base/pipes.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/creating_a_child_process_with_redirected_input_and_output.asp

(there are some coding style issues I'll probably want to change before 
I merge either of the cvs and ssh branches, but those aren't really a 
big deal. I'm thrilled to see all the progress christof is making -- 
great work!)

-graydon