Wine and industrial communication like OPC
Robert Shearman
rob at codeweavers.com
Thu Sep 2 08:28:21 CDT 2004
Mike Hearn wrote:
>> Named pipes is ncalrpc yes? This OPC thing sounds more like a network
>> protocol.
>
>
> Sorry, I understand now. We use local named pipes to implement (local)
> DCOM internally but ncalrpc on windows is actually implemented using
> NT ports. So named pipes via SMB/CIFS ... yeah, I doubt we could do
> that anytime soon :)
Samba has already documented the protocol and if it wasn't for licensing
issues it would be very easy to port it into Wine.
> Bizarre stuff. What's confusing is that CreateNamedPipe on msdn
> doesn't talk about networking at all, and there's no parameters to
> deal with hostnames.
I think you can just use UNC paths. The same applies for mailslots too IIRC.
Rob
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