From: andyp AT parallax DOT co DOT uk (Andy Piper)
Subject: Re: Thread created for select call!
3 Aug 1998 09:17:04 -0700
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To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

At 10:54 03/08/98 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 03:44:46PM +0100, Andy Piper wrote:
>>At 10:43 03/08/98 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>I've rewritten select from scratch recently, so all of those mallocs/frees
>>>are gone.  Now there are new ones, but hopefully there are fewer.
>>
>>Does it still include sergey's /dev/windows stuff? I hope so.
>
>Included, but not tested thoroughly.

... and broken unrfortunately :(

>If you want to try this, you can check out:
>
>ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/private/home/cgf/cygwinb19.dll.gz
>
>I'm interested in any and all bugs with this version, but if you are
reporting
>bugs, I'd appreciate it if you could also supply strace logs:
>
>	export STRACE=1,somefile

It certainly feels faster but because the /dev/windows support is broken I
can't really use it. I'll try generating a trace although the basic problem
is that XEmacs hangs which used to mean that MsgWaitForMultipleObjects was
not being called or if it was that when a message comes in select() isn't
exiting.

andy
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