Re: [PERFORM] scalability issues on win32
Claudio Natoli <[email protected]>
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> How is it that this has not bitten us elsewhere? Are we only reading > tiny things from pipes in other cases so that a single read works? IIRC, this particular use of ReadFile is only to read version strings. > It seems very strange that a shorter version string should cause the failure. Counterintuitive, but appeared entirely reproducible on my WinXP installation. No doubt there is a perfectly unreasonable explanation. Interested in seeing another confirmation. In any case, afaics ReadFile fails to make any guarantee that it will return an entire line, so pipe_read_line requires attention. Cheers, Claudio ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [email protected]