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RE: setup will have to wait :[
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>, Egor Duda <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: setup will have to wait :[
- From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:19:13 -0600
- Cc: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
> Right, so _how do we pass the fd_ to the child process? I'll look into
> spawn and fork. Worst case though: fifos are cygwin only. Best case I
> find some way of tricking the OS into loading up the cygwin code and
> writing "through it". Hmm I wonder if an IFS could do this (How much
> work did I think this was going to be ?!).
An IFS could do it, but the last time I checked the API and documentation
were under an NDA.