From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: Unable to fdopen() a pipe handle 14 Jul 1998 15:29:01 GMT Message-ID: <6oftft$96k$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <5010400024885002000002L022*.cygnus.gnu-win32@MHS> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <5010400024885002000002L022*.cygnus.gnu-win32@MHS>, Craig Setera wrote: >I've got a chunk of code that create an anonymous pipe using pipe() and then >attempts to create a write stream on the pipe using fdopen() (something like >this... from memory... not necessarily correct): > >int mypipe[2]; >FILE *mystream; > >pipe(mypipe); >mystream = fdopen(mypipe[1], "w"); > >I can't seem to get fdopen() to return anything other than NULL. Any thoughts? I just tried this and it works fine for me. I'd be surprised if it didn't since this is a very common thing to do. Try upgrading to a "coolview" version of cygwin.dll: http://www.lexa.ru/sos . -- cgf@cygnus.com "Everything has a boolean value, if you stand http://www.cygnus.com/ far enough away from it." -- Galena Alyson Canada