Re: stderr piping under win32 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

From Claudio Natoli
Subject Re: stderr piping under win32
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Msg-id A02DEC4D1073D611BAE8525405FCCE2B55F52D@harris.memetrics.local
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In response to stderr piping under win32  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
Responses Re: stderr piping under win32
List pgsql-hackers-win32
Andreas Pflug writes:
> I wonder why pgpipe is implemented like this, maybe
> because the initial coder didn't know how to inherit handles
> obtained by _pipe(...).

IIRC, it is because the handles returned by the pipe call are later
select()'d on with other sockets, which is not possible with handles
returned by _pipe.

Cheers,
Claudio

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