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by skissane 698 days ago
> (Windows supports Unix sockets; who knew?)

Only since Windows 10 build 17063 (December 2017 pre-release) [0] [1], which was released as Windows 10 April 2018 Update. So for the first 25+ years of Windows' existence, it didn't.

And although it does implement the basic functionality, it is missing features found on mainstream Unix-like platforms, e.g. file descriptor passing (SCM_RIGHTS)

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-...

[1] https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_10_build_17063