From:	Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Message-Id:	<199903021825.NAA13041@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA>
Subject:	Re: inetutils
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 2 Mar 1999 13:25:03 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To:	<199903020306.WAA18787@envy.delorie.com> from "DJ Delorie" at Mar 1, 99 10:06:25 pm
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Bonjour

> > The std{in,out,err} are sockets handles.
> 
> In order to spawn a child under *any* conditions, and pass handles
> which are sockets, you need an OS that understands handles as sockets.
> DOS just doesn't support this, so there's no way to use djgpp for
> something like inetd and still be able to use the os's
> program-execution code.  You'd have to write the child programs as
> dlls, dxes, or something you invent, so that you can "inherit" the
> handles.  Note that ka9q does this.

Fair enough.
URL for ka9q ?

I'll delay the integration of DJGPP for the next release (1.4)
of inetutils. Lets reschedule it for 1.5, there is too many
concept(DOS/DJGPP) that I don't grasp to make a clean port.

Maybe if times permit I can leave the necesary hooks for the
clients since I've already got a couple working.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!

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