Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:11:14 +0300
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:42:24 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> > > Library change.  We shouldn't be getting magic numbers on pipes.
> > 
> > How can we detect that a particular handle is a pipe?  Handle zero is
> > not special: some program could close it and open some file on it.
> 
> If get_dev_info returns zero and OS is NT, 99% of the time this will
> be a pipe or weird handle.

I'm not sure we know enough to rely on that.  You effectively rely on
a bug to tell you something very specific about the handle.

> > > Also remember, that NT 4.0 and DJGPP have co-existed for 5 years, and
> > > no one has reported this until now
> > 
> > I'm not sure this is something we can rely on.  I suspect that the
> > number of people who used DJGPP on NT is very small.  That's the only
> > way I can explain to myself how come I see the nuisances of DJGPP use
> > on NT (see section 3.3 of the FAQ) reported so infrequently on
> > c.o.m.d.
> 
> The LFN TSR is a really cool thing - I'll bet if we pushed it more 
> heavily NT 4 would get more usage.  Maybe it just needs marketing :-)

I think it didn't get more usage and more marketing because very few
people really tried to use DJGPP on NT.

Perhaps we should have offered it to Microsoft ;-)