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Re: setup will have to wait :[


On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:19:13PM -0600, Parker, Ron wrote:
>> Right, so _how do we pass the fd_ to the child process? I'll look into
>> spawn and fork. Worst case though: fifos are cygwin only. Best case I
>> find some way of tricking the OS into loading up the cygwin code and
>> writing "through it". Hmm I wonder if an IFS could do this (How much
>> work did I think this was going to be ?!).
>
>An IFS could do it, but the last time I checked the API and documentation
>were under an NDA.

What is an IFS, Ron?

cgf


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