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- From: plyon@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Paul Lyon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: popen/pclose
- Message-ID: <PLYON.92Aug28213844@emx.cc.utexas.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 02:38:44 GMT
- References: <9208252007.AA08786@data.src.honeywell.com>
- Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
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- In-reply-to: bergstro@src.honeywell.com's message of 25 Aug 92 20:07:45 GMT
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- In article <9208252007.AA08786@data.src.honeywell.com> bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom) writes:
-
- I checked the gcc/2 library source (2.1) and there is a popen.c
- file in the gen subdirectory. It contains popen(..) and pclose(..),
- however I didn't take the time to find out which library they're
- actually in.
-
- (Rumor-spreading: there may be a pd-sorta OS/2 lib.exe coming soon -
- no, it's not from me)
-
- Pete
-
- Those functions are in the source, but they are not in libc.lib for
- one quite sufficient reason: they use the vfork() call, and there
- is at present no OS/2 equivalent :-(
-
- Paul Lyon
-