On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:11:35AM +0900, jojelino wrote: >On 2012-04-27 AM 9:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> There's no way that Cygwin could know to "skip" a call to WriteFile(). >> Cygwin doesn't interpose itself in the middle of a pipe. That would be >> truly disastrous. If it somehow looked at every pipe read/write rather >> than just allowing I/O to flow from one end to the other, the mailing >> list would be even more filled with people complaining that Cygwin is >> slow. >> >Maybe i can measure how much it slowed down after applying the >workaround of unworkable runtime of some non-free software.
Thanks for the offer but that presupposes that I'd actually be willing to go to the effort of coding something up. I'm really not. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple