Re: Looks like we can enable AF_UNIX on Windows now

On May 29, 2018 9:44:09 PM EDT, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/12/19/af_unix-comes-to-windows/
>
>The latest Windows 10 update shipped with AF_UNIX socket support for
>win32
>sockets.
>
>It's not that exciting because it doesn't support socketpair() or fd
>passing - yet. So really it doesn't offer us much more than we can
>already
>get with win32 named pipes. We can - and do - already get fd passing
>with
>DuplicateHandle anyway.
>
>Still, I thought it was interesting. We could probably just
>conditionally
>enable AF_UNIX sockets on new enough windows SDKs. Apparently if it's
>not
>supported by the OS runtime you get a graceful error.

Last time I checked it didn't support transporting user identification though. Which means not that much value would be added. Is that still the case?