From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: QUERY: w32 sub process implementation Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:16:54 +0100 Message-ID: <46C8B346.8020408@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187558241 30435 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2007 21:17:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:17:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: dhruva Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 19 23:17:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IMs98-0003JW-Ep for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:17:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMs98-0003XO-NX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:17:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMs95-0003X5-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:17:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMs93-0003WO-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:17:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMs93-0003WK-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:17:13 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMs92-0006FH-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90F8529E9; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:17:06 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76773 Archived-At: dhruva wrote: > Using ASYNC read and registering callbacks in wait, I feel we can > completely do away with threads for sub procs. Wil this work on Windows 95/98/ME? According to the MSDN docs, asynchronous reads have limited support, and it is not entirely clear from the documentation whether the way we handle process I/O would be included or not.