Signal tinc under Windows

[Graham Smith]

> A dedicated Windows developer for tinc would be nice, indeed :)

Sorry I am not in a position to take up your offer :)

Kind Regards
Graham Smith

From: tinc-bounces at tinc-vpn.org [mailto:tinc-bounces at tinc-vpn.org] On Behalf
Of Guus Sliepen
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:18 PM
To: tinc at tinc-vpn.org
Subject: Re: Signal tinc under Windows

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:39:35AM -0800, Scott Lamb wrote:

> > I am new to tinc and I have read in the docs that one can "signal" 
> > tinc with various options.  How to achieve this under Windows?
> 
> I don't use Windows, but from a glance over tincd.c, there's a 
> "--kill=[SIGNAL]" argument that emulates this behavior.

It only supports stopping and removing a service on Windows (the native
binary of course, if you compile it for Cygwin it would support all
signals).

> Also, the 1.1 branch has a "tincctl" program which is more flexible 
> than sending signals. I don't know if it works with Windows or not (do 
> they have Unix-domain sockets?) but if not a Windows developer could 
> probably make it use the local equivalent easily.

A dedicated Windows developer for tinc would be nice, indeed :)

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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>