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Re: possible explanation for make hang



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt" <matt@use.net>
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > IMO, it does matter.  We have the same problem of non-interuptible IO
> > on sockets.  It's solved in net.cc by using the `CancelIO' call which
> > doesn't exist in 95.
> >
> > My humbly opinion:  95 is really, really old now.  It has been
> > substituted by two following OSes in the meantime and the third
> > is coming soon.  Even Microsoft has canceled support for 95 and
> > I can understand them.  If 95 doesn't work in a specific part of
> > Cygwin which works fine in 98/ME/NT/W2K/XP, we shouldn't care
> > anymore.  We just stop to create workarounds which are really only
> > for 95.
> 
> I agree, especially since it's now been deprecated by Microsoft itself. 

Almost ;)

Win95 - RIP - December 31, 2001.
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/discontinue.asp?sd=gn

It should be supported in the dll at least to then...... :)

Trevor



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