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Re: problem with readonly pinfo?


On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:10:27PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:40:46PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >I was thinking about one event in catchem (sigproc) and the same kind of
> >processing as what is done today. Don't know how compatible that is with
> >your new implementation.
> 
> That would be perfect for the old method.  I'm just blocking on a pipe now.
> If MSFT actually implemented overlapped reads for pipes this wouldn't be
> an issue.  I don't know why they limited things in this fashion.

Weird enough, they implemented overlapped IO for named pipes.  Just for
anonymous pipes (and therefore not on 9x/Me) it's not implemented.

Corinna

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