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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12:38:57 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Debugging problem in peek_pipe in select.cc
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:24:49PM -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>>  Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12:09:56 -0500
>>  From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
>>  
>>  The point of my addition of a mutex to peek_pipe was to prevent occurrences
>>  of PeekNamedPipe blocking, actually.  It can block in pathological situations
>>  when another thread/process is doing a blocking read.
>
>Ah, so the MSDN documentation is wrong.
>
>Imagine my surprise :-).
>
>Is it actually documented somewhere else, where I didn't look, that
>PeekNamedPipe can block, or did you just have to figure this out by
>hard experience?

I figured it out by hard experience and then eventually found it mentioned
somewhere in the bowels of MSDN.  Needless to say, I was very surprised.

cgf