Martin v. Löwis wrote: Your news server doesn't honour cancel as well...
> It doesn't need to, why do you think it does? This was an extremely stupid question on my side. It needs to be flushed after a write because that's how the memory pages mapping the file is synchronized with the file. Write ops to the memory mapping addresses isn't immediately synchronized with the file on disk. Both Windows and UNIX require this. I should think before I write, but I realized this after posting and my cancel didn't reach you. > Read the source, Luke. It uses mmap or MapViewOfFile, depending > on the platform. Yes, indeed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
