win32 support for daemon / IPC

[Jaap Karssenberg]

Currently the daemon / IPC framework only work on unix (uses unix domain socket and POSIX job control). This should be ported to windows.

* Job control can be done with Win32::Process
* What to use to replace domain socket - inet socket ?

[Peter Morgan (pedromorgan)]

Major Category:

imho: This issues and other need to be under a new issue called

"Windows"

This needs researching with feedback!

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

See also bug #704899 - port zim to DBus

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

See also bug #872998 - can not use --plugin trayicon on windows

[Digidog (7a532kg9-support)]

Just jump in to say: Hey I am here and I would like to help to solve this issue. Where are we now with this? What is the status now?

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Digidog <email address hidden> wrote:
> Just jump in to say: Hey I am here and I would like to help to solve
> this issue. Where are we now with this? What is the status now?

Current design on unix we use a unix domain socket. Deamon listens to
this socket and keeps open pipes to notebook instances (see
zim/daemon.py for more details).

Two issues on windows
1/ no domain sockets - so need to use inet socket instead
2/ fork does not work the same - need to use window API to spawn new process

So would need windows specific implementation of the logic in daemon.py

Alternative would be to port the whole thing to DBus (which is my
preverence) but as far as I'm aware necessary libraries not yet
available for windows as precompiled installer.

Regards,

Jaap

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

New ipc framework in rev 590 should work on windows as well, to be tested.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Fixed in zim 0.57