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popen2 on Windows

John van der Koijk vdkoijk at linux01.prc.tno.nl
Tue Jul 6 08:11:59 EDT 1999 
"BT" == Bill Tutt <billtut at microsoft.com> writes:

    >> After coping with my initial frustration, I've decided to make
    >> an unthreaded stub program talking to the DDE client, using
    >> popen2 to do the IPC with the GUI and controller
    >> program. Sadly, this approach also does not seem to work,
    >> because using popen2 gives me:
    >> 
    >> [....] os.fork() AttributeError: fork
    >> 
    >> This is amazing, since the manual for 1.5.2 says:
    >> 
    >> 8.13 popen2 -- Subprocesses with accessible standard I/O
    >> streams
    >> 
    >> Availability: Unix, Windows.
    >> 

    BT> Well, its wrong. :) Windows doesn't have fork().

    BT> The win32pipe module exposes popen2() that does what you want
    BT> it to do, however you need to avoid a bug in Win9x. The
    BT> knowledge base article at:
    BT> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q150/9/56.asp
    BT> covers what you need to do to avoid this dilemma.

Wow. I'm completely flabbergasted...

I have realised that I could also use a socket interface. Works great,
and speed is not one of my concerns, right now.

Thanks,
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John van der Koijk.
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