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authorschmidt <douglascraigschmidt@users.noreply.github.com>1998-01-29 16:16:10 +0000
committerschmidt <douglascraigschmidt@users.noreply.github.com>1998-01-29 16:16:10 +0000
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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog-98a6
-rw-r--r--README1
-rw-r--r--ace/FIFO.h8
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diff --git a/ChangeLog-98a b/ChangeLog-98a
index e43d2638cce..c80ed2dcf33 100644
--- a/ChangeLog-98a
+++ b/ChangeLog-98a
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Thu Jan 29 10:14:03 1998 Douglas C. Schmidt <schmidt@flamenco.cs.wustl.edu>
+
+ * ace/FIFO.h: Revised the comment at the beginning of ACE_FIFO to
+ clearly indicate that it doesn't work portably to Win32. Thanks
+ to Thomas Hampson <thomas.hampson@lmco.com> for suggesting this.
+
Wed Jan 28 15:36:55 1998 Carlos O'Ryan <coryan@cs.wustl.edu>
* bin/auto_compile:
diff --git a/README b/README
index 3f0f7520d70..5fb063d5102 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -509,6 +509,7 @@ Richard Keizer <RICHARD.L.KEIZER@cdev.com>
Edgar Villanueva <edgarvil@ix.netcom.com>
Oliver Kellogg <Oliver.Kellogg@vs.dasa.de>
Dave Meyer <dmeyer@std.saic.com>
+Thomas Hampson <thomas.hampson@lmco.com>
I would particularly like to thank Paul Stephenson, who worked with me
at Ericsson and is now at ObjectSpace. Paul devised the recursive
diff --git a/ace/FIFO.h b/ace/FIFO.h
index eacf6f54fa2..1aaec751d15 100644
--- a/ace/FIFO.h
+++ b/ace/FIFO.h
@@ -23,7 +23,13 @@
class ACE_Export ACE_FIFO : public ACE_IPC_SAP
{
// = TITLE
- // Abstract base class for UNIX FIFOs (a.k.a. Named Pipes).
+ // Abstract base class for UNIX FIFOs
+ //
+ // = DESCRIPTION
+ // UNIX FIFOs are also known Named Pipes, which are totally
+ // unrelated to Win32 Named Pipes. If you want to use a local
+ // IPC mechanism that will be portable to both UNIX and Win32,
+ // take a look at the <ACE_SPIPE_*> classes.
public:
int open (const char *rendezvous, int flags, int perms,
LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sa = 0);