Mechanism for connection notification

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ocaml
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by locating the vpnkit startup and VM-connection handling entry points, then trace how a Windows client could access a named pipe. Define the notification behavior for connections that already exist and those established later; done means the client can reliably wait for one connection byte.

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Description

When vpnkit is started, it would be usefull to be notified when the VM is connected.
On Windows, that could be easily done by reading 1 byte on a named pipe from the client side. From vpnkit side, the byte would be written either immediately (if connection has already happened), or when the connection happens.

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