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From:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To:	"thomas" <tom AT huno DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References:	<777770015 DOT 20021122040845 AT huno DOT net>
Subject:	Re: pipe performance problem
Date:	Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:19:47 -0000
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thomas <tom AT huno DOT net> wrote:

> it seems that the pipe code with recent cygwin versions causes a
> performance problem when much data (3.6 MB per second in this case) is
> transferred from one program to another.
>
> i use mkisofs to make an iso filesystem from files on the fly and pipe
> the output directly to cdrecord which writes the fs to the cd-r. cmd
> line looks like this:
>
> mkisofs -J -R -l * | cdrecord -dev=1,0,0 -v -dummy -speed=24 -

Out of interest, does it work if you use a temporary file, instead of a
pipe?
(Just want to narrow the problem as far as possible).


Max.


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