pipe replacement w/o TerminateThread

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Tue Apr 15 17:18:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:16:32PM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>So that native windows processes will never be able to use cygwin pipes.
>
>Sigh.  Which means there is only one alternative left --
>REPLACE THE PIPE FUNCTIONS IN WINDOWS.

Or use the previous polling method that was used to make pipes
interruptible (slow) or use the terminate-a-thread method (dangerous).

cgf



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