From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32548 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2009 03:07:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 32540 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jul 2009 03:07:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-98-110-183-121.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (98.110.183.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:07:25 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E4E3B0008 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:07:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id BE6C82B380; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:07:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:07:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: WCONTINUED/WIFCONTINUED Message-ID: <20090713030715.GA1657@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <6910a60907100049x47d2645cl1ce5930fb9034dce@mail.gmail.com> <20090710162020.GA20932@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4A5A9B52.7000505@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A5A9B52.7000505@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-q3/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 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