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Re: Any chance of upping MAX_DELQUEUES_PENDING?


At 04:22 PM 3/18/2002, Chris January wrote:
>Why is MAX_DELQUEUES_PENDING set only to 100? Sometimes I want to delete
>more than 100 files (quite often in fact). Any good reason for this or is it
>an arbitary limit? If so, could it be upped to something a bit larger
>please?
>It seems the current limit of 100 was chosen arbitarily by Geoffrey Noer in
>1998.
>Just out of curiosity, why is there a deletion queue in the first place?
>Also, Geoffrey mentions that having an array of a fixed size is bad in the
>FIXME comment at the top of delqueue.cc. Is there any reason this has not
>been re-implemented as a linked list (for example), yet? (other than lack of
>contributors to do it)



See the FAQ entry:

Why do I get a message saying Out of Queue slots?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC65

It's an oldie but a goodie! ;-)



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