Re: [Monotone-devel] hang on Win32/MinGW with sync file:

[Richard Levitte]

Heh, it's Christmas time and you're hacking?  I'm having a hard time
deciding if I should worry or just say "way to go!" ;-)

On the other hand, I should rather shut up.  After all, here I am
reading and responding to email...

Cheers,
Richard

In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:30:23 -0500, Stephen Leake 
<address@hidden> said:

stephen_leake> I started another branch net.venge.monotone.win32_pipes_2, to 
try to
stephen_leake> get named pipes working on Win32, and Unix pipes on Unix.
stephen_leake> netxx_pipe.hh has an extensive comment discussing the rationale;
stephen_leake> basically, it's the only way to support 'mtn sync ssh:' and 'mtn 
sync
stephen_leake> file:', and detect connection closures.
stephen_leake> 
stephen_leake> However, I realized that the current Cygwin mtn works quite 
nicely for
stephen_leake> 'mtn sync ssh:' and 'mtn sync file:' (ie, Cygwin emulates 
'select' far
stephen_leake> better than the current mtn PipeCompatibleStream does), so I'll 
just
stephen_leake> use that for a while.
stephen_leake> 
stephen_leake> I may come back to this later.

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