[ros-dev] WinSocket support?

[Thomas Faber]

We have 'diskpart', but I'm not sure how capable it is for things like that.


On 2022-03-01 10:27, Johannes Thoma wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Thank you for your fast answer. I now got WinDRBD running without networking
> support (which is just a proof of concept, DRBD is a network storage 
> replication
> driver) but at least the driver loads and does something.
> 
> I couldn't find a way to create paritions on an empty disk, I tried 
> diskpart but it
> failed to create the partition (there is no partition table on the disk 
> yet). What is
> the ReactOS way to create paritions (I also tried fdisk but it didn't 
> exist)?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> - Johannes
> 
> Am 01.03.22 um 02:25 schrieb Thomas Faber:
>> Hi Johannes,
>>
>> ReactOS does not currently support WSK, nor is any work on it in 
>> progress or planned.
>> Our network stack is unfortunately unstable enough even with just TDI,
>> so any efforts in networking typically go towards stabilization.
>>
>> TDI itself is supported, so if you were to work on a library that 
>> implements the WSK interface on top of TDI, you might have a chance of 
>> it working. However, the kernel-mode interface is not particularly 
>> well tested, as AFD (which implements user mode sockets) is currently 
>> the only consumer. So even if you get it to work in Windows Server 
>> 2003, you're likely to encounter bugs in ReactOS.
>> We'd of course be happy to get any reports of bugs you run into.
>>
>> Best,
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2022-02-28 15:05, johannes at johannesthoma.com wrote:
>>> Dear ReactOS developers,
>>>
>>> I am working on WinDRBD (https://github.com/LINBIT/windrbd), which is a
>>> port of the Linux DRBD 9 driver to the Windows family of operating 
>>> systems.
>>> Technically it is a compatibility layer for the Linux kernel 
>>> functions that DRBD
>>> uses.
>>>
>>> I am currently researching if WinDRBD can be ported to Windows Server 
>>> 2003
>>> and also to ReactOS and found that the networking API we are using 
>>> (WinSocket)
>>> is only supported by Windows Vista (0x600) and up. Porting WinDRBD to 
>>> ReactOS
>>> would require using the TDI interface instead (everything else 
>>> "should" work,
>>> however I couldn't test it because it does not load currently into 
>>> ReactOS).
>>>
>>> My question is is there any ongoing effort to implement a WinSocket API?
>>> If yes what is the status of this implementation?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any insights,
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> - Johannes
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