pipe performance problem

[Max Bowsher]

thomas <tom@huno.net> wrote:

> it seems that the pipe code with recent cygwin versions causes a
> performance problem when much data (3.6 MB per second in this case) is
> transferred from one program to another.
>
> i use mkisofs to make an iso filesystem from files on the fly and pipe
> the output directly to cdrecord which writes the fs to the cd-r. cmd
> line looks like this:
>
> mkisofs -J -R -l * | cdrecord -dev=1,0,0 -v -dummy -speed=24 -

Out of interest, does it work if you use a temporary file, instead of a
pipe?
(Just want to narrow the problem as far as possible).


Max.


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