On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:23:59PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >At 01:03 PM 11/14/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:34:30PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >>>At 12:11 AM 11/14/2004 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>>BTW, have you ever tried using select, having a connection from the >>>parent to the child? >> >>select involves polling or setting up other events to track end-of-pipe >>conditions. I don't think that's a win. > >I meant the Windows select, on sockets.
Use sockets rather than pipes? Given all of the problems that we have with sockets, I don't think we want to go down that path. cgf
