arlad for Windows

[Tomas Olsson]

> So is the current code possible to compile on Windows? What environment
> and version is recomended? Cygwin? Is there any instructions available on
> this or even better a binary dristribution of arlad for Windows?
> 
I've made some changes that makes it compile under cygwin with gcc
-mno-cygwin, producing ordinary win32 binaries. Never tried to make it any
cleaner than that. Still need to make a few commits though, if you want my
hackish patch just ask. Meanwhile, there are a few demo binaries (w2k) for
the brave at ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/random/tol.

Currently, the main problem with arlad has to do with threading (lwp). The
current implementation can't communicate with xfs/winnt using ioctls, so we
use tcp and a helper application instead. This (plus some more) makes for
an absurd number of context switches for every message.

The kernel part seems to support simple lookups/reads (unauth) reasonably
well.

have fun
		/tol