>In particular, the code I'm looking to patch does a typical fork/exec and uses >2 pipes to communicate bi-directionally parent to child. The >pipes are throwing me off as to if cygwin spawn is usable.
I had no problems using fork/exec on Cygwin, even though it is mentioned to be inefficient in the documentation. If the spawn rate of your child processes is not high, it should work just well... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple