On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:41:18PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * On the subject of "Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bash&cmd): shells >> compete for input with user program!" >> * Sent on Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:23:16 -0400 >> * Honorable Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:23:18PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >> >> Under cygwin you'd accomplish this by having the parent process use >> >> one of the "exec" calls. >> > >> >nope. doesn't work either. >> >I get the same "input competition" when I use exec(). >> >> If you are using fork/exec, then sure, you'll get that. > >I am not using fork(). just plain exec().
Ok. Then you're not building cygwin applications apparently. Next assumption is that you're using the -mno-cygwin option. If the exec paradigm in cygwin was really broken, the mailing list would be filled with people complaining about that fact. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
