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Re: RFC socketpair


From: Bastien ROUCARIES
Subject: Re: RFC socketpair
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:31:04 +0200

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Bastien,
>
>> I do not know how to replace the fork() on windows.
>
> It's replaced by doing a spawn to a separate program. Take for example the
> files
>  modules/nonblocking-pipe-tests
>  tests/test-nonblocking-pipe.sh
>  tests/test-nonblocking-pipe-main.c
>  tests/test-nonblocking-pipe-child.c
> that were committed in gnulib two days ago. The essential points are:
>  - Use a separate program for the child process(es).
>  - Use posix_spawnp on Unix, spawnvpe on native Windows to spawn the child
>    process. (Our posix_spawnp does not yet work on mingw.)
>  - You can pass command-line options and stdin, stdout to the child process;
>    file descriptors > 2 cannot be passed to child processes on Windows, I 
> think.
Not sure about the last point see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683463(v=vs.85).aspx
And unfortunatly socketpair need fd process inherance, so sad :(


Bastien



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