Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:14:30 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Signal & setitimer
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On Sun, 7 May 2000, Jason Green wrote:

> I'm not sure exactly what the expected behaviour of this program
> *should* be (can someone clarify this) but the actual behaviour is
> definitely not consistent.

What you report *is* reproducible.  The small patch I posted should
fix it; please try that.

> UltraEdit seems to use the programs c:\windows\system\conagent.exe and
> c:\windows\system\redir32.exe to create a shell for test.exe and
> capture its output.

This is the standard way for Windows 9X programs to redirect output of
DOS programs to a file.  Since DOS and Windows programs run in
different virtual machines, they cannot directly inherit file
handles.  conagent.exe is a TSR that Windows installs in a DOS box to
work around that problem, and redir32 augments it.