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Re: whats a good magic number for fifo's?
- To: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: whats a good magic number for fifo's?
- From: Egor Duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:55:05 +0400
- CC: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Organization: DEO
- References: <011201c0b6ae$c3f7de20$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
- Reply-To: Egor Duda <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
Hi!
Tuesday, 27 March, 2001 Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au wrote:
RC> The title says it all.
RC> I'm extending the magic number checks in fhandler_base... this will have
RC> a performance impact (the assume exe flag and/or ntsec will no longer
RC> shortcut the file open and read tests). I'm open to suggestions for
RC> marking the file as a fifo without magic numbers.
how about using symlinks pointing to some special destination (for
example to '/cygdrive/fifo')? all we need to do in this case is to
slightly modify current symlink resolution code.
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19