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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:18:39 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> I saw that you made another change to this function.  Is it possible that
>> this might actually fix the "rtorrent problem"?

> No.  It only adds the MS_SYNC handling.  rtorrent uses MS_ASYNC.

That made me think... If rtorrent uses MS_ASYNC, shouldn't *rtorrent* be
prepared for consequences? Instead of you trying to satisfy its
expectations?

> I think there's basically no way around the loop.  I'm just still
> wondering if we shouldn't add a cygwait() call to handle signals
> during the wait time.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 19.01.2013, <00:15>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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