Re: [mingw32] stdin redirection

Mark Kettenis
2007-04-12T19:37:48Z

> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:33:24 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:47:44 +0200
> > From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> >
> > > > If we could find a way to replace the current implementation of
> > > > fd_is_pipe into something that avoids using any of the pipe functions,
> > > > then that would probably solve our problem. Unfortunately, despite
> > > > our intensive search of MSDN, nothing turned up.
> > >
> > > To the best of my knowledge there is no way.
> >
> > That's what we though too :-(.
>
> Can't we maintain a list of all file descriptors used by GDB, where
> those which are open on a pipe are marked as such? Then we'd _know_
> what API with each fd to use without relying on dysfunctional tests.

Guys, it sounds like you're reinventing a big chunk of Cygwin.