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Subject: Re: Coprocesses/piping problem
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:04:10 -0500
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<snip>

Adam,

>  Unfortunately, the program appears to hang when compiled and run, though
>  the child process is launched. What is really bizarre is that this code
>  works fine when compiled under Linux. Are there any pitfalls to be
>  particularly aware of when trying to use this construct? Is this an area
>  in which Cygwin may not be 100% POSIX compliant?

I too discovered an issue in running xauth in a popen():

http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00431.html

that was related to ZoneAlarm being installed.

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