[RPCRT4] support for RPC TCP servers

Robert Shearman rob at codeweavers.com
Mon Sep 25 12:00:46 CDT 2006


Jakob Eriksson wrote:
> Jan Zerebecki wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:04:40PM +0100, Robert Shearman wrote:
>>  
>>> I appreciate your attempt at solving this hard problem, but I don't 
>>> believe this is the right approach. Using winsock2 instead of Unix 
>>> sockets adds overhead in terms of wineserver calls and extra 
>>> processing time to mangle arguments, which we shouldn't need.
>>>     
>>
>> But shouldn't we have the possibility to use winsock so a build
>> of our RPCRT4 is possible for native (and e.g. ros)?
>>   
>

Of course. In that case, the fix to add inet_ntop can go in 
include/wine/port.h. Then if someone wants to patch rpcrt4 to 
conditionally include winsock2.h instead of the Unix net headers and 
call WSAStartup that would be fine.

> Exactly my thoughts too, but I didn't dare voice them.

Why is that?

-- 
Rob Shearman




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