FreeTDS Development Group

["Brian Bruns" <brian.bruns AT gmail.com>]

2007/4/13, James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org>:

> > FreeTDS does not support named pipes afaik?
>
> AFAIK, too.  ;-)  I can't see a reason even to think about adding them.
>
> Regards,
>
> --jkl



I looked into this once upon a time.  The big hold up was the only good
C-based library to do netbios at the time was samba and that was GPL, not
LGPL and it wasn't really modularized for the purpose.  I actually played
around with writing a netbios/named pipes library in C but kinda lost
interest in it.  As I recall it wasn't too difficult to get the rudimentary
support for enough of it to get TDS over named pipes working.  In Java there
is jCIFS for a reference example.

Brian