Re: 4.0.4

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > AG>> to use that ugly code from the MSDN which doesn't seem to work > AG>> well or at least Stas didn't get it to work in the little time > AG>> he had to mess around with it. > > I tried, but since Microsoft code wasn't exactly doing what I needed and > debugging was very hard because every time I did something wrong IIS got > stuck and required full reboot - it just took too much time and I had to > drop it for the lack of time. Maybe more skilled Windows developer could > do it, I'm just not enough familiar with Windows guts to do this > effectively (and neither I wish to become familiar, for the record :) > I don't mean to pry here, but I found two ways of doing popen() on Microsoft's website. I saw the steaming pile of elephant dung that uses CreateChildProcess() and CreatePipe(), but I also saw that the VC++ 6.0 runtime library has another function, _popen(), that claims to do almost the same thing. Are these the same thing and/or do they have the same results? -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>