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From: mike_cygwin AT comcast DOT net (Mike_Cygwin)
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Subject: RE: Asynchronous i/o
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:59:31 +0000
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>   Should be fairly straightforward to implement, as windows I/O functions
> support asynchronous operations (called "overlapped" in msdn technology).  You
> shouldn't need to modify anything except the cygwin dll sources to add the
> functions.
> 
>   See
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin for
> some guidelines on how to build the cygwin dll from source.  When adding new
> functions to the DLL, you also need to list them in the "cygwin.din" file -
> that defines which functions get exported and which don't.
> 
> 
OK...learning. ;-[)

My reason for asking these questions is because some of the digging I did suggested there were other things not yet implemented that would make it near impossible to do this (something about pthreads).  What I am hearing now is that this not the case (anymore).  I will look at the links you provided.

Thanks,

Mike

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