subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bash&cmd): shells compete for input with user program!

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:23:18PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> Under cygwin you'd accomplish this by having the parent process use
>> one of the "exec" calls.
>
>nope.  doesn't work either.
>I get the same "input competition" when I use exec().

If you are using fork/exec, then sure, you'll get that.  If you use
just exec, then cygwin should do the right thing.

cgf

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