Re: Help on Windows pipe processing

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy]

On 10/28/07, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:48:24 +0700
> > From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <address@hidden>
> >
> > Did I make anything wrong?
>
> You didn't use the O_NOINHERIT flag in the _pipe call, and I think you
> should close the original descriptor _before_ you spawn the child, not
> after.  See the examples at
>
>   http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/edze9h7e(VS.80).aspx
>

Thank you! It works well with O_NOINHERIT. I recall I used to have it
but dropped for some reasons :-/

> Btw, are you sure that using the default I/O mode in the pipe is a
> good idea?  Wouldn't O_BINARY be better?

Yes. I set _CRT_fmode to _O_BINARY, so _O_BINARY should be default for
all operations? (It's in ash source, not in the example sources)

> HTH
>


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Duy