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Re: Any chance of upping MAX_DELQUEUES_PENDING?
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:26:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: Any chance of upping MAX_DELQUEUES_PENDING?
At 04:22 PM 3/18/2002, Chris January wrote:
>Why is MAX_DELQUEUES_PENDING set only to 100? Sometimes I want to delete
>more than 100 files (quite often in fact). Any good reason for this or is it
>an arbitary limit? If so, could it be upped to something a bit larger
>please?
>It seems the current limit of 100 was chosen arbitarily by Geoffrey Noer in
>1998.
>Just out of curiosity, why is there a deletion queue in the first place?
>Also, Geoffrey mentions that having an array of a fixed size is bad in the
>FIXME comment at the top of delqueue.cc. Is there any reason this has not
>been re-implemented as a linked list (for example), yet? (other than lack of
>contributors to do it)
See the FAQ entry:
Why do I get a message saying Out of Queue slots?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC65
It's an oldie but a goodie! ;-)
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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