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Re: More spawn & Windows processes


On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 11:07:49AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>At 11:05 AM 12/27/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:51:58AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>>  should now be able to save microseconds by simply closing the pipe.
>>
>>Did you happen to notice that it *used* to be a CloseHandle?
>
>Yes. I think you changed it in an attempt to make P_DETACH work.

No.  I remember that you floated that theory but it really had nothing
to do with that.  I wanted to guarantee that the parent process saw a
"close" regardless of whether there were other processes with the pipe
open.  It's a paranoia thing as I round onto releasing 1.5.13.

cgf


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