Re: WCONTINUED/WIFCONTINUED

Re: WCONTINUED/WIFCONTINUED

[Eric Blake]

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According to Christopher Faylor on 7/10/2009 10:20 AM:
> I should be able to implement this.  It shouldn't be too hard*.

What - implementing WIFCONTINUED from scratch is easier than fixing a
regression in named pipes?

To be honest, you deserve a world of thanks for whatever you can manage to
get working, in spite of the difficulties in dealing with microsoft's
arbitrary changes across windows versions.  Take as much time as you need
to get it right!

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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Re: WCONTINUED/WIFCONTINUED

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 08:26:26PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to Christopher Faylor on 7/10/2009 10:20 AM:
>>I should be able to implement this.  It shouldn't be too hard*.
>
>What - implementing WIFCONTINUED from scratch is easier than fixing a
>regression in named pipes?
>
>To be honest, you deserve a world of thanks for whatever you can manage
>to get working, in spite of the difficulties in dealing with
>microsoft's arbitrary changes across windows versions.  Take as much
>time as you need to get it right!

As I'm sure you know, implementing WIFCONTINUED is MUCH easier than
named pipes because the implementation is entirely Cygwin.

I haven't been idle on the named pipe front but everything I've tried so
far has worked imperfectly.  I started using Windows named pipes because
I thought it simplified fifo handling a lot.  It's looking now like I
may have to invent some kind of interprocess handshaking to make them
work right but I really really don't want to do that unless I really
really have to.

Thanks for the thanks.

cgf