Re: New function proposal

[David Bateman]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I'd like to propose the attached extension to octave. This implements
> a new
> function exec_with_pipes, which creates communication pipes and start
> a child process. The initial goal is to work around the fact that
> MSVC/MinGW
> is missing fork(), such that popen2 is not working (note that MSVC also
> misses POSIX pipe; it has a "_pipe" function, but with additional
> arguments).
>  
> I only implemented the Win32 version, but UNIX implementation should
> be straightforward.
>  
> Michael.
>
Doesn't the code here effectively do something almost equivalent to
popen2? In that case why can't this just be used as a MWVC/MINGW
implementation of the popen2 function rather than introduce a new
function? If not what is different? Do we need both popen2 and
exec_with_pipes?

Cheers
David

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