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From: Pete Batard <pbatard@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: w32api/include/winbase.h rev. 1.101, OVERLAPPED and -std=c99
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6FD581.2020807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110303173737.GA16585@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>

On 2011.03.03 17:37, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> It's the other way around.  Cygwin's winbase.h comes from MinGW.  If
> there is an issue you need to take it up with the MingW folks.

Ah OK - will do then.

> OTOH, for Cygwin programs you shouldn't be using winbase.h at all.

For pure cygwin yes, but we wanted a common abstracted polling for 
asynchronous transfers on Windows platforms, since poll() it's not 
available in MSVC, and the only option then is to use an OVERLAPPED.

Anyway, thanks for the reply.

Regards,

/Pete

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-03 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-03 16:45 Pete Batard
2011-03-03 17:37 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-03-03 17:55   ` Pete Batard [this message]

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