On Thu, 24 Aug 2017, Jeff King wrote:
Oh good. While I have you here, have you given any thought to a curl handle
that has two half-duplex file descriptors, rather than a single full-duplex
socket? That would let us tunnel over pipes rather than worrying about the
portability of socketpair().
I suspect it would be quite complicated, because I imagine that lots of
internal bits of curl assume there's a single descriptor.
Yeah, it would take quite some surgery deep down in the heart of curl to
implement something like that. It wouldn't call it impossible but it would
take a certain level of determination and amount of time. I presume the
descriptor-pair would be passed in via an API so it wouldn't affect the
connect phase. We also have decent test coverage, making an overhaul like this
a less scary thought - as if the existing tests say OK we can be fairly
certain there aren't any major regressions...
(I may also have forgotten some tiny detail for the moment that makes it very
hard.)
/ daniel.haxx.se (who landed the IMAP PREAUTH fix in curl)
Don't you land most of the fixes in curl? :)
I do, but I don't expect readers of the git list to know that!
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/ daniel.haxx.se
