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Win32 Question
- From: Bryan Feeney <bfeeney at uklinux dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:30:40 +0000
- Subject: Win32 Question
Sorry, I know this is a pretty odd question to ask in a forum like this,
but I'm hoping someone can help.
Basically, I would like to write a GUI (using Delphi & Win32) for a
Win32 console program. I had hoped I could read and write to the console
program using pipes. However it appears that you cannot read the
program's stdout through a pipe (stderr works fine). When I try to run
it in the MingW32 console, it appears to hang. Clearly MingW32 is
falling foul of the same pipes problem as I am.
What's puzzling me is that the Cygwin console *isn't* bothered by this
problem. The program's output appears fine, as if it was running in
cmd.exe.
Does anyone know what the Cygwin console is doing differently that
allows it to read and display the program's stdout when MingW32 and my
app fail?
I think the program in question uses multi-threading, though I'm not
sure how that would affect things.
Thanks
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Bryan
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