Re: stderr piping under win32

From: Claudio Natoli <claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com>
To: 'Andreas Pflug' <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: stderr piping under win32
Date: 2004-07-30 11:50:37
Message-ID: A02DEC4D1073D611BAE8525405FCCE2B55F52D@harris.memetrics.local
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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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