From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Pipe to sendmail (again)
Date: 11 Jul 2000 10:40:27 GMT
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Olaf van der Spek <Olaf AT xcc DOT tmfweb DOT nl> wrote:

> "Hans-Bernhard Broeker" <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> schreef in bericht
> news:8kd9lj$oog$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE...

>> You didn't really think you could believe anything MSDN writes about
>> Unix, did you?

> It wasn't about Unix, it was about popen in general. What source do you
> recommend for this kind of documentation for g++?

popen() is a Unix-native feature. The standard that defines it is
POSIX. As this is the DJGPP newsgroup, the obvious choice of
documentation would be the DJGPP libc reference, of course :-) Or any
well-kept Unix system's man pages.

In general: use the docs of the system you're actually using, if
problems with some function arise. Don't blindly assume that the docs
of one system correctly describe the same function on another
system. Not unless the docs explicitly say that this function is
defined by some standard, and the platform exactly follows that
standard.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.