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Re: 1.7.2 release?


On Jan 26 15:02, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:49:46PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jan 26 14:36, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:27:54PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >Would sockets under the hood work better for fifos, just as for AF_UNIX
> >> >sockets?
> >> 
> >> I was looking at sockets just last weekend.  I cycle through regular
> >> pipes, named pipes, mailslots, and sockets every couple of weeks,
> >> looking for something that I missed.  I can't remember why I rejected
> >> sockets now.  Time to cycle through again.
> >> 
> >> If I could get by with a cygwin-only solution this would be much easier.
> >> I'd just implement it all using shared memory and mutexes.  But, then
> >> someone would try to use a fifo as stdin for a windows program and SPLAT.
> >
> >What about "FIFOs only work with Cygwin processes by design"?  File
> >locking doesn't work with native processes either.  As do not XSI IPC,
> >POSIX message queues or POSIX semaphores.
> 
> If you're ok with that, I'll consider ripping out everything and
> starting over - but not for 1.7.2.

I have no problems at all with that.

> So, anyway, no fifo improvements in 1.7.2.  Maybe 1.7.3 can be a
> fifo-only release.

That's rather unlikely ;)

> The other thing that I wanted to do was fix some signal handling problems
> but those can wait too.

What is that about?  I'm just curious.


Corinna

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