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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 21:54:10 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: pipe performance problem
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:45:18PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>You mentioned "... on all flavors of Windows ...", suggesting that there 
>are better options on certain varieties of Windows, so another alternative, 
>perhaps less onerous (perhaps not) would be to use whatever OS-specific 
>facilities are available to adapt the code to the optimum performance 
>possible for the OS on which Cygwin is running.

Nah, I was just hedging my bets for when somebody mentions that .NET
provides simple method for interrupting a waiting pipe.  It's also
possible that there are some W2K APIs for dealing with signals in a
better way but the actual mechanism escapes me at the moment.

cgf

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