On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:12:19PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >At 09:47 PM 11/25/2003 -0500, you wrote: >>On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:13:12PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>Other than that minor point, this looks ok. >> >>Sorry. On rereading this this sounded rather lukewarm. I'm very happy >>that you are fixing this problem. I should probably let Corinna have >>the final word on this, though. >> >>Thanks. > >OK, I will be out of town for a few days, so it would be nice if Corinna >could apply it as well. > >Regarding your remark, I had thought of putting prefix on the cygheap, >but that looked like overkill (could be done some day, together with >cygwin_user_h and a few others).
This is what I said: "Couldn't you just initialize prefix prior to calling shared_name?" I wasn't saying that it should be on the cygheap or that it should be only initialized once per cygwin "session". I was saying that it could be calculated once per program, prior to calling shared_name, avoiding the test entirely. cgf