Signal tinc under Windows

[Guus Sliepen]

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 :)

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