setup will have to wait :[

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sun Mar 25 14:13:00 GMT 2001


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



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