[Question] Windows about tableflip

[lmb]

Hi!

I've not tested it, but I'm pretty sure it won't work unfortunately. The library relies on the fact that file descriptors follow a predicable pattern on Unix-ish systems. AFAIK Windows uses opaque HANDLEs instead, which means some other method would have to be found.

Do you have a service that needs to work on Unix and Windows, or just Windows?

[Belphemur]

Hello Lorenz, Thank you for the the quick answer. Thats also what I gathered when I dig into the code, just wanted to be sure. It's for a service that currently runs on both OSes, dnscrypt-proxy. I loved the idea of a simple signal to have a new process been run instead of implementing a whole reload logic. On another note would the lib support sustemd socket? Do you think that would be easy or interesting to add?

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[lmb]

Are you referring to socket activation? I sketched out a solution in #14 (comment) which might be what you are looking for. Depending on how complex the code ends up being it could become an example, or a sub package.

If socket activation is what you want I'd suggest re-opening that issue.

[Belphemur]

Good point.

I'm closing this issue since the answer is "Not working with Windows".

Maybe you could add that somewhere in the readme or have a check for GOOS in the code to fail on compile :)