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From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add read-cache--daemon
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 15:37:44 +0200
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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> What do you think is a good replacement for unix socket on Windows?
> It's only used to refresh the cache in the daemon, no sensitive data
> sent over, so security is not a problem. I'm thinking maybe just
> TCP/IP server, but that's going to be a system-wide daemon.. Perhaps
> the windows daemon could just monitor $GIT_DIR/index and refresh it?

Windows has support for Named Pipes, which seems like the right kind
of communication channel. However, the programming model differs quite
a bit from unix-sockets:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365594%28v=vs.85%29.aspx