localsocket as a two-way on windows

[KawaiiSelbst]

Is it possible to use localsocket as a two-way on windows with tokio, or will you have to make 2 sockets for this?

[kotauskas]

LocalSocket is actually duplex (fancy term for "two-way"/"bidirectional") on all platforms, as is the Tokio version of it, because Unix systems don't support having them be unidirectional. You can split the Tokio ones to perform reads and writes concurrently; update 2.0.0 will add splitting to non-async local sockets as well.

[KawaiiSelbst]

Is it possible to receive and send more than one message at a time?

[kotauskas]

What do you mean by "at a time" and by "message"? Local sockets only have byte streams for platform compatibility reasons, and Interprocess does not yet provide a message interface wrapper as of 1.2.1.

If you're wondering if you can receive and send simultaneously, you can currently only do that with Tokio by calling .split() on the local socket; 2.0.0 will add support for splitting non-Tokio local sockets and implement I/O traits on &LocalSocket, allowing you to split them by reference by simply borrowing them.