converse of cygwin_attach_handle_to_fd()?

[Dave Korn]

On 04 June 2006 00:10, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> cygwin_attach_handle_to_fd() lets create a cygwin fd on top of a windows
> handle. When calling close() on the fd, the windows handle is closed
> too. Is there any way to close the fd without closing the underlying
> handle? (i.e. the converse of cygwin_attach_handle_to_fd(), actually)

  Well, the simple workaround would be to write a wrapper function for
cygwin_attach_handle_to_fd; the wrapper would call DuplicateHandle to get a
spare copy of the original handle and then pass that duplicated handle to
cygwin_attach_handle_to_fd instead of the original handle; that way, when you
close the fd, the duplicate of the handle is closed, entirely independently of
the original.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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