Subject: Re: MinGW port usable

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:23:52 +0100

Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 
> > (*) The reason is that on Windows read() and write() cannot operate on
> > descriptors created by socket(). A work-around is to implement a (threaded)
> > proxy, but that's almost the same as if netcat were used as
> > GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
> 
> Can you do
> 
> #define read(fd, buffer, len) recv(fd, buffer, len, 0)
> #define write(fd, buffer, len) send(fd, buffer, len, 0)
> 
> in the appropriate file?

I doubt that recv and send can operate on regular file descriptors, as
opened by _pipe(), open(), can they?

-- Hannes