From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Foolproof solution for non-inherit on spawn/exec?
8 Jun 1998 10:11:53 -0700
Message-ID: <199806081655.MAA29071.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@kramden.cygnus.com>
To: cgf AT cygnus DOT com, newsham AT lava DOT net
Cc: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

>From: newsham AT lava DOT net (Tim Newsham)
>Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 06:50:50 -1000 (HST)
>
>> This scenario means that fds opened in a cygwin process are not passed
>> to a non-cygwin process.  I think that's the correct behavior.
>
>Wouldn't this mean piping to non-cygwin processes would no longer
>work?

stdin/stdout/stderr are handled separately by fork/spawn since they are
filled out in the STARTUP_INFO structure.  They should still operate
correctly.
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