[jewel]

For those that haven't seen it, this isn't the first time (or even the second time) that Microsoft has released a POSIX layer for Windows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

[ktRolster]

And they all suck (but are better than nothing). I really wish I could get the windows socket() function to return an integer.