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Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:47:19 +0100
From: Jens Yllman <jens AT uniweb DOT se>
Subject: Re: The implementation of popen().
To: David Whitten <whitten AT netcom DOT com>
Cc: GNUWin32 <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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 There may be many reasons why it is that much code in the cygwin
implementation. And actually it is not much code in popen(). But it
calls fork() and that calls ... and so on and on. I just wondered if
someone here knew a way around the stupid implementation of popen() in
windows.

 Jens Yllman

David Whitten wrote:
> 
> >
> >  Hello,
> >
> >  I've a UNIX program that uses popen(). But when I try to use that with
> > _popen() that is in Win32 I can not call a program that uses _popen().
> > But this works with popen() in Cygwin. I've looked at the code in
> > Cygwin. And it as quite alot of code. So I just wonder if there is
> > anybody here who know what is realy needed to get it to work. Why I
> > don't use Cygwin for this project is because I link with a static
> > library that does only work with MS-Visual C++.
> 
> If it works in cygwin, I assume that all of the code is necessary.
> Windows has some seriously limited code.
> Why would the Cygwin developers want to add more code if they didn't
> need to ?
> 
> Dave

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