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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:15:52 -0700
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Subject: Re: automatically using pipe_byte for certain EXE's
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On 7/26/12 9:34 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> I still don't know why anyone wouldn't want to use pipe_byte all the tim=
e.
>=20
> I think that was covered pretty explicitly by cgf in reply to you some ti=
me
> ago:

Cygwin still uses message pipes for ptys in pipe_byte mode, so the
first of cgf's reasons doesn't apply. As for the way message pipes
"more closely mimic" Linux pipes: I don't see it. What's the
difference? And does it matter in practice? Can someone give me an
actual example of a problem caused by using byte pipes in the non-pty
case? I'm not aware of any.

Since message pipes cause problems _in practice_ and byte pipes (which
Cygwin lived with for many years) don't seem to cause problems _in
practice_, pipe_byte should go away and pipe_byte behavior should be
used unconditionally.


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