pipe replacement w/o TerminateThread

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:03:38AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>Christopher, I'm coding up an example for you, but I see two basic ways
>of doing this:
>
>1. Toss CreatePipe() and implement pipes with shared memory and semaphores.

So that native windows processes will never be able to use cygwin pipes.

>2. Use CreatePipe() but buffer data outside of the pipe, using a reader
>   thread so the pipe never blocks.

Same problem with windows processes and all sorts of tricky inheritance
problems with exec/fork.

This "how do we deal with pipes" issue has been discussed since 1998
at the very least.  There should be all sorts of words in the archives.

cgf