On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:39:05PM +0100, thomas wrote: >10 ms delay, and there's many of them. Exactly every 612 lines or every >34816 bytes (34kb). Which is about 210 seconds delay on a 700MB file.
If there is no data in a pipe it can wait for 10ms waiting for it, yes. See ready_for_read/peek_pipe in select.cc. cgf -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions or observations. Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/