On 7/26/12 9:34 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > Daniel Colascione wrote: >> I still don't know why anyone wouldn't want to use pipe_byte all the time. > > I think that was covered pretty explicitly by cgf in reply to you some time > ago:
Cygwin still uses message pipes for ptys in pipe_byte mode, so the first of cgf's reasons doesn't apply. As for the way message pipes "more closely mimic" Linux pipes: I don't see it. What's the difference? And does it matter in practice? Can someone give me an actual example of a problem caused by using byte pipes in the non-pty case? I'm not aware of any. Since message pipes cause problems _in practice_ and byte pipes (which Cygwin lived with for many years) don't seem to cause problems _in practice_, pipe_byte should go away and pipe_byte behavior should be used unconditionally.
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