Johannes Sixt wrote:
The README.MinGW at
http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git?a=blob_plain;f=README.MinGW;hb=master gives
an overview on the state. The transfer via native git protocol does not work
and cannot be made working without major surgery(*). Theoretically, using
netcat (nc) as GIT_PROXY_COMMAND should work, but not in my setup for some
reason that I still do not know.
(*) The reason is that on Windows read() and write() cannot operate on
descriptors created by socket(). A work-around is to implement a (threaded)
proxy, but that's almost the same as if netcat were used as
GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
Actually, I believe it can for the NT series kernels (at least 2000 or
later, not sure about the earlier ones), but not for the DOS-based ones.
The trick is to use _open_osfhandle() to convert the file handle (a
WinAPI construct) to a file descriptor (which in Windows is a construct
of the C library.)
In 9x/ME, a socket isn't represented by a file handle, so
_open_osfhandle() doesn't work on a socket object.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/html/_crt__open_osfhandle.asp
-hpa
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