Re: popen() on Win32

Andi Gutmans wrote: > > Hey, > > A couple of guys here said they are working on creating a popen() > alternative solution for Win32. > Any progress? > I remembered I wanted to suggest you to take a look on how it is implemented in Python. Their docs state: """ popen (command[, mode[, bufsize]]) Changed in version 2.0: This function worked unreliably under Windows in earlier versions of Python. This was due to the use of the _popen() function from the libraries provided with Windows. Newer versions of Python do not use the broken implementation from the Windows libraries. """" Python also has popen{2,3,4}(), [ in module os, also there is a popen2 module ]. I took a peek into posixmodule.c (iirc) but didn't figure out from _PyPopen() how they do it cause it's a bit over my knowledge :) One can grab the python2.0 sources and have a look if interested (I don't have the relevant file at hand). ciao -- teodor