From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: popen() in cygwin.dll
22 Jan 1997 19:38:39 -0800
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Corinna Kinchin wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> We're using beta release 17 of cygwin.dll with gcc version 2.7.2, 
> under Windows NT 4.0.
> 
> I'm finding that the popen() function call always returns NULL. 
> Has anyone else encountered this? Is it a known "feature"? 

If this is happening, it's definitely a bug.  Unless someone out
on the net solves the problem and gets me a patch to the appropriate
cygwin32 code in src/winsup this may not get looked into soon due to
extreme time constraints.

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Geoffrey Noer
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