From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: win32 popen clone for mingw32 anyone?
30 Jul 1998 12:41:54 -0400
Message-ID: <35C0A252.4487@delorie.com>
References: <9807280528 DOT AA13340 AT modi DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu> <xouMqAASUwv1EwRC DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT dsteele DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22)

Douglas Steele wrote:
> Guido Masarotto <guido AT sirio DOT stat DOT unipd DOT it> suggested the following to
> me "BTW, the djgpp libc contains an emulation of popen which
> perhaps can be used by Mumit Khan...  maybe you can signal it to him."

Fine with me, but note that (1) djgpp's popen.c is GPL not LGPL, and (2)
it doesn't use real pipes - it uses temporary files.

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/simtel/v2/djlsr201.zip/src/libc/posix/stdio/popen.c

DJ