From: andyp AT parallax DOT co DOT uk (Andy Piper)
Subject: Re: Thread created for select call!
3 Aug 1998 08:35:58 -0700
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To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

At 10:56 03/08/98 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 03:47:56PM +0100, Andy Piper wrote:
>>I'm not convinced about the need for this anyhow. select() is usually used
>>as an alternative to muti-threading.
>
>Well, respectfully, that really doesn't matter.  If we are making cygwin
>thread-safe we can't have some stuff that works fine in threads and some
>stuff that works unreliably.

Sure it needs to be reliable and thread-safe but if its too slow that's
almost as bad IMO.

andy
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