Re: Port of Emacs client / server programs to Windows NT

[Jason Rumney]

> - It doesn't require Winsock.
>   
That might have been important 10 years ago, but now I doubt there are 
any installations of Windows 95 without the networking addon used by 
Emacs users.

>  Would it be worth making the
> code in server.el resort back to running a separate process if the
> :local sockets are not supported?
Maybe a week ago it would have been worth it, but not now that Juanma 
has completed his work.

> Or maybe Emacs could be made to use
> named pipes instead of sockets if a :local socket is created on
> Windows as they seem to be the Windows equivalent of Unix domain
> sockets?
>   
It might be worth adding cross-platform support for named pipes after 
the release.