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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:13:50 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setup will have to wait :[
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In-Reply-To: <012801c0b577$f8663f40$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:07:22AM +1000

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:07:22AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>Didn't you and Corinna have huge problems with pipes on win95? If so I'd
>rather create a round wheel. Egor is suggesting the fifo's are many
>writers to many readers, with no cohesion.. I don't think that's the
>same as anonymous pipes...

The only problem that I'm aware of is that PeekNamedPipe doesn't
recognize eof on a pipe in Windows 9x.  PeekNamedPipe works on anonymous
pipes in the Win32 API so we use that in select.cc.

cgf