Re: Implementing the non-blocking pipes API

From: Per Bojsen <bojsen_at_.....>
Date: Mon Mar 20 2006 - 12:39:16 PST
Hi John,

> I meant to answer this last week. Yes this latest version
> of your code worked fine.

Good!

> Also, just to re-cap on your idea at least week's meeting
> of revising the blocking calls to be able to deal with
> any buffer size even if it exceeds the currently
> supported internal buffer size of the non-blocking API,
> it might make sense to have the following call:
>
> int dpi_pipe_c_get_depth(
>      void *pipe_handle,       // input: pipe handle
>      svBit input_or_output ); // input: 1 for input pipe, 0 for output
> pipe

Yes, I was thinking the same thing.  Besides making it easier to
implement the `smart' blocking calls, having this call also makes
the interface more symmetric.

Per

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