Rewriting the FIFO code

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 23 15:51, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 1/23/2019 8:05 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jan 22 20:44, Ken Brown wrote:
> >> On 12/26/2018 2:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> On Dec 26 14:00, Ken Brown wrote:
> >>>> Thanks for the encouragement, and Happy Holidays to you too.  One question: In
> >>>> the new AF_UNIX socket code you mostly used NT functions, but the existing FIFO
> >>>> code uses Win32 functions.  Do you prefer NT functions for new code?
> >>>
> >>> The NT functions have some advantages over the Win32 functions.
> >>> For instance, WaitNamedPipe is not interruptible, while
> >>> NtFsControlFile(FSCTL_PIPE_WAIT) can be called asynchronously
> >>> and then you can just wait for an event object via cygwait
> >>> (see fhandler_socket_unix::wait_pipe_thread).
> >>>
> >>> So, in theory I'd prefer NT functions, but if you feel uncomfortable
> >>> and just want to implement away, feel free to go ahead with Win32
> >>> functions.
> >>
> >> I've decided to use Win32 functions for now, not because of discomfort but
> >> because it allowed me to use more of the existing code.  I can always change
> >> that later.
> > 
> > Sounds good to me.  Just... can we make the fifo pipes PIPE_NOWAIT, by
> > any chance and make fhandler_fifo a derived class of fhandler_base?
> 
> Sure.

\o/
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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