Re: [ECOS] Pipes in eCos

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:23:26AM -0500, Richard Pennington wrote:
> Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:24:39PM +0530, Venkateswara Rao L. wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>	It seams eCos does not support pipes, is there anything
> >>equivalent to that?
> >
> >Take a look at the thread:
> >
> >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/ecos-patches/2004-12/msg00034.html
> >
> >It was decided not to include it because it does not really follow the
> >eCos way of doing things, but that should not stop you from using it
> >is you want.
> >
> >   Andrew
> >
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Out of curiosity, how does that pipe/pty implementation fall short for 
> eCos? I've been thinking of using it to get a select()-able file 
> descriptor for inter-thread communication.
> 
> Are there improvements that could be made to make it fit into eCos 
> better? I'd be willing to give it a try. Otherwise I'll just use my 
> version quietly.

There was discussion at the time. What does the archive say? It is
something like two years ago, so i don't remember myself.

          Andrew

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