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6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Igor Zinkovsky
5a34f19970 windows: allow specifying FDs to be inherited by a child process
Previously the only option was to create a pipe or an ipc channel. This
patch makes it possible to inherit a handle that is already open in the
parent process. There is also room for setting more than just stdin,
stdout and stderr, although this is not supported yet.
2012-05-28 23:59:58 +02:00
Ben Noordhuis
9efa8b3571 unix, windows: rework reference counting scheme
This commit changes how the event loop determines if it needs to stay alive.

Previously, an internal counter was increased whenever a handle got created
and decreased again when the handle was closed.

While conceptually simple, it turned out hard to work with: you often want
to keep the event loop alive only if the handle is actually doing something.
Stopped or inactive handles were a frequent source of hanging event loops.

That's why this commit changes the reference counting scheme to a model where
a handle only references the event loop when it's active. 'Active' means
different things for different handle types, e.g.:

 * timers: ticking
 * sockets: reading, writing or listening
 * processes: always active (for now, subject to change)
 * idle, check, prepare: only active when started

This commit also changes how the uv_ref() and uv_unref() functions work: they
now operate on the level of individual handles, not the whole event loop.

The Windows implementation was done by Bert Belder.
2012-05-17 07:07:53 +02:00
Ben Noordhuis
f471f06322 test: clean up test-stdio-over-pipes 2012-04-18 02:39:30 +02:00
Igor Zinkovsky
70925c3bb9 windows: Enable passing of TCP connections over IPC 2012-03-29 18:18:46 -07:00
Ben Noordhuis
339a1ad252 test: fix warning: implicit declaration of function ‘memcmp’ 2011-10-26 17:12:05 +02:00
Igor Zinkovsky
54982a23ef windows: stdio over non-overlapped pipes 2011-10-20 15:14:39 -07:00