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Re: [Fwd: 1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem]
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:41:10 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: 1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem]
- References: <20040910090123.GV17670@cygbert.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Sep 10 11:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Due to speed considerations, Cygwin's implementation of OpenSSH uses
> pipes for local IPC instead of socketpairs.
Hmm, I just found that this can't be quite valid anymore. Using
socketpairs is way faster, even when using Cygwin 1.5.10. I digged
in the openssh-unix-dev ML archives and the decision to switch to
USE_PIPES has been made 3 1/2 years ago. I'm wondering if it's
time to switch back to socketpairs...
Corinna
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