Support UnixStream on Windows
Author: sullivan-seanCreated Aug 16, 2022Updated Jul 30, 2026
Labelsenhancementwindows
Windows 10 added support for unix sockets in a 2018 general Windows 10 release. Building this functionality into Mio would allow support in Tokio and other downstream libs.
This seems to be of interest in several downstream libs, example issues here:
Mio's current AFD approach on Windows actually seems to be compatible with AF_UNIX sockets (noted e.g. in this wepoll issue).
Source: tokio-rs/mio