From: Alain Magloire Message-Id: <199903021825.NAA13041@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA> Subject: Re: inetutils To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:25:03 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199903020306.WAA18787@envy.delorie.com> from "DJ Delorie" at Mar 1, 99 10:06:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Bonjour > > The std{in,out,err} are sockets handles. > > In order to spawn a child under *any* conditions, and pass handles > which are sockets, you need an OS that understands handles as sockets. > DOS just doesn't support this, so there's no way to use djgpp for > something like inetd and still be able to use the os's > program-execution code. You'd have to write the child programs as > dlls, dxes, or something you invent, so that you can "inherit" the > handles. Note that ka9q does this. Fair enough. URL for ka9q ? I'll delay the integration of DJGPP for the next release (1.4) of inetutils. Lets reschedule it for 1.5, there is too many concept(DOS/DJGPP) that I don't grasp to make a clean port. Maybe if times permit I can leave the necesary hooks for the clients since I've already got a couple working. -- au revoir, alain ---- Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!