remctld on windows

[Jason Edgecombe]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jason Edgecombe <jason at rampaginggeek.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I noticed that remctld is not supported on windows. Is it possible to 
>> run on windows XP? It would be ideal for some in-house programs that are 
>> needed. what issues are involved when running remctld on windows?
>>     
>
> remctld relies heavily on UNIX fork and select semantics and will not run
> on native Windows of any variety.  I'm not sure it would even work on
> Cygwin.  However, the server component of the Java implementation should
> work on Windows provided that the same security classes are available.
>
> The first step to getting the server to work natively on Windows would be
> to move the network protocol components of the server into a library.
> This is on my to-do list, but I have no ETA (not soon).
>
>   
Dang. Thanks.

Jason