Sarocet wrote: > René Berber wrote: >> "serious problems" ? Only problem is the test I mentioned, passing a >> file descriptor is not supported under Cygwin as far as I know. >> > I have no cygwin experience, but Windows *does* allow passing file > descriptors to child process. Not in the same way as unix, but I'd find > odd the cygwin guys didn't manage to adapt that, given that they were > able to do much more complex things, such as emulating fork()
My reference is old, so things could have changed. http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00672.html I have no first hand experience using fd passing, the problem could be more specific to passing stdin's fd, which is what the test script does. -- René Berber _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
