setup will have to wait :[

[Parker, Ron]

> Right, so _how do we pass the fd_ to the child process? I'll look into
> spawn and fork. Worst case though: fifos are cygwin only. Best case I
> find some way of tricking the OS into loading up the cygwin code and
> writing "through it". Hmm I wonder if an IFS could do this (How much
> work did I think this was going to be ?!).

An IFS could do it, but the last time I checked the API and documentation
were under an NDA.