From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-11-06T07:43:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32 support issues

Rich Kilmer wrote:

> That is my understanding as well and it is this copying of the process
> image that win32 does not have (as far as I know).  This should not
> preclude starting another process and aquiring pipes to the
> stdin/out/err, which would serve the FreeRIDE project's needs (and
> likely many others).  This is what I think popen3 should do under win32.

My bad; I thought you were implying that since Win32 doesn't have a 
fork() function that there's no way to get the behavior that you need, 
and that's why I brought up CreateProces(). Now that I go back and read 
your original post, I see that you were specifically talking about 
Ruby's implementation of fork (i.e. Kernel#fork) on Windows, which 
doesn't expose the specific functionality you need (even though we know 
it's available down there somewhere in the OS).