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Re: The implementation of popen().
- To: GNUWin32 <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: The implementation of popen().
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:51:44 -0500
- References: <200003061632.IAA06269@netcom.com> <38C6E687.8D361EAE@uniweb.se> <rhhgcsghmj8epvc6318afsa51i4994fbtl@4ax.com> <38C82954.5E924176@uniweb.se>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:44:36PM +0100, Jens Yllman wrote:
> The problem with popen() under vc++ is that if I start a program with
>popen(). That program can not start another program with popen(). Or
>actually the program is started. It is just the the piping does not seem
>to work. But if I compile it with gcc it works. The thing I'm doing is
>running my program from a web server. And since it is a general program
>reading configs to know what it does. It could be that my program calls
>it self. And since this is a CGI program it 'pipes' data back with
>stdout. And if that does not work recursivly it gets limited. On UNIX
>this works great.
And, I'll bet you're not using VC++ on UNIX, either.
Just a hunch.
cgf
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