Re: [Qemu-devel] new feature: attach a process to emulated serial port

[Filip Navara]

Derek Fawcus wrote:

> Yeah - but they're the only interesting ones :-)  Hmm is it so easy
> to connect process with a bi-dir like pipe on Windows (NT) machines?
>  
Not one that I know about. CMD in W2K+ was extended to support some 
Unix-like semantics, but there's (still) nothing like mkfifo.

> > Forking is a more universal approach, as I see it.
> >    
> Modulo the above proviso?  Is there the ability to create "proper" pipes between
> processes on NT from native win32 code?
>  
Yes! Search MSDN (msdn.microsoft.com) for "Creating a Child Process with 
Redirected Input and Output", "CreatePipe" and "CreateNamedPipe". Also 
standard POSIX-like "popen" is available.

Regards,
Filip