On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 06:41:16AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Charles Wilson wrote: > >> If not, what sort of "not" is it? (a) possible, but nobody has had the >> time or inclination to implement (b) not possible on win32 (c) possible, >> but REALLY hard -- case (a) on steroids. > > Well, there's going to be DuplicateHandle involved in it, to copy the >underlying os handle into the new process, but that's going to be the >trivially easy bit. The real *tricky* part is likely going to be marshalling >the corresponding fhandler_* objects across process boundaries. That plus >there will probably be some required support to handle these fds and how they >interact across process groups, close-on-exec, fork and exec, etc., etc., - >all the usual tricky areas.
And, also what happens if you're communicating between two different versions of cygwin. cgf -- 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
