Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> Windows does not have socketpair(), nor a strict pipe() equivalent. I expect
> switching to socketpair() makes the Windows side trickier in some ways and
> simpler in others. +1 for exploring that direction first.
A bit of googling suggests that emulating socketpair() on Windows is not
that hard: basically you create an accepting socket and connect to it.
Ugly I guess but likely to be nicer than emulating the two-pipes trick
exactly.
regards, tom lane