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From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Thread created for select call!
3 Aug 1998 07:58:02 -0700 :
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To: Andy Piper <andyp AT parallax DOT co DOT uk>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 03:47:56PM +0100, Andy Piper wrote:
>I'm not convinced about the need for this anyhow. select() is usually used
>as an alternative to muti-threading.

Well, respectfully, that really doesn't matter.  If we are making cygwin
thread-safe we can't have some stuff that works fine in threads and some
stuff that works unreliably.

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