Re: New function proposal

[David Bateman]

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> >> [IN, OUT, ERR, MSG] = pipe ()
> >>
> > Michael,
> > Do you have a version of your patch for popen2/pipe that take into
> > account all of John's comments? If so I'll test it under linux...
>
> No, I'm not working on "pipe". "pipe" is currently not supported under
> MSVC, because it does not have a POSIX pipe. It has however the
> following:
>  
>     _pipe (int *fildes, int size, int mode)
>  
> where size is the internal pipe buffer size and mode specifies the
> binary/text
> mode and inheritance. Making "pipe" work under MSVC is quite easy,
> but I don't know which default values to use for the additional arguments,
> especially the pipe size.

If you work it out, adding pipe would be nice as well. If you don't I'll
modify your patch (when you are ready) to adapt pipe and the popen2
posix code...

>  
> Concerning popen2, I'm working on it. Still I'm wondering whether I should
> keep the interface I added in octave_syscalls and move the implementation
> into a private octave_popen2 function in lo-sysdeps.cc; or drop the
> interface
> in octave_syscalls class and export directly octave_popen2 from
> lo-sysdeps.cc
> as a stand-alone function.

When you work it out sent me a patch

>  
> Michael.
>  


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