Re: Re: Cygwin PostgreSQL CVS Patch

Dan,

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 02:01:35PM +0100, Horák Daniel wrote:
> > Another issue you might be interested in is that of Unix
> > domain sockets.
> > I understand that they now exist in Cygwin, so you might want
> > to refine
> > this snippet in src/include/config.h[.in]:
> >
> > /*
> > * Define this if your operating system supports AF_UNIX
> > family sockets.
> > */
> > #if !defined(__CYGWIN__) && !defined(__QNX__) && !defined(__BEOS__)
> > # define HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS 1
> > #endif
>
> I tried AF_UNIX sockets with Cygwin few months ago. The code have
> compiled OK but was not working. The special file in Cygwin that
> represents the socket was somehow corrupted (there was no <!socket>
> string). But with latest Cygwin release can be the situation better.

I just tried AF_UNIX sockets with Cygwin 1.1.7 last night and everything
seemed to work just fine -- at least all of the regression tests passed.
I will be submitting a patch shortly.

Jason

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