Re: Wine and industrial communication like OPC

[Robert Shearman]

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