Unix domain sockets on Windows

[haraldh]

Seeing https://github.com/Azure/mio-uds-windows .. Is there any reason why UDS are not implemented in the standard library for Windows?

[retep998]

Because they were implemented in a rather recent version of Windows 10.

[haraldh]

meanwhile I created a crate for it https://crates.io/crates/uds_windows

[steffengy]

Is the argument here
"only a recent version of win10 supports it, so it doesn't belong in STD"
or
"only a recent version of windows 10 supports it, so nobody has added support yet?"

[retep998]

Definitely the former because std supports Windows 7 as a tier 1 platform. Considering you can use a third party crate for unix domain sockets on windows as is, there is very little reason to put them in std.

[yoshuawuyts]

I'd love to see this feature make it's way eventually. Cross-linking a conversation on internals for discoverability.

[rylev]

As an FYI: I am working on a pre-RFC for min_target_api_version which allows for conditional compilation based on the minimum support API version for the target platform. This could address the issue that this would not be supported on older versions of Windows. With this mechanism, Unix sockets would only be available when compiling for a min_target_api_version that supports Unix sockets. Though this would likely only benefit those who build their own version of the standard library.