Re: RFC socketpair

[Bruno Haible]

Hello Bastien,

> I do not know how to replace the fork() on windows.

It's replaced by doing a spawn to a separate program. Take for example the
files
  modules/nonblocking-pipe-tests
  tests/test-nonblocking-pipe.sh
  tests/test-nonblocking-pipe-main.c
  tests/test-nonblocking-pipe-child.c
that were committed in gnulib two days ago. The essential points are:
  - Use a separate program for the child process(es).
  - Use posix_spawnp on Unix, spawnvpe on native Windows to spawn the child
    process. (Our posix_spawnp does not yet work on mingw.)
  - You can pass command-line options and stdin, stdout to the child process;
    file descriptors > 2 cannot be passed to child processes on Windows, I 
think.

Bruno
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