[BRLTTY] Any chance of supporting 64-bit Cygwin?

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun Feb 18 19:38:17 EST 2018


Hello,

Yes, it took a very long time, but...

Siju Samuel, on mar. 11 févr. 2014 17:40:30 -0600, wrote:
> In windows,  simultaneous read [with 1 option as input] and  write  [
> (brlapi_readKey(1, &key)  ,   brlapi_write()] using different thread was not
> working.  Currently brlapi_write() will block till a physical Key is pressed, 
>  before performing write.  If  you find time it would be really helpful  to use
> brlapi. 

We have revamped the way reads are done, which made us set
FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED, which AIUI, avoids some of the windows
synchronization issues.

Samuel


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