[Geany-Devel] [geany/geany] a3664f: Fix spawning [synchronous] commands on Windows

[Nick Treleaven]

On 16/11/2012 20:31, Dimitar Zhekov wrote:
>> >This confused me. Are you saying you use native Windows functions in
>> >combination with g_spawn? I thought only g_io_add_watch could be used.
> g_spawn_async_with_pipes() returns libc/msvcrt fd-s. You can use them
> to create channels, or directly.
>
> Anonymous win~1 pipe fd-s are handled by giowin like regular fd-s
> (G_IO_WIN32_FILE_DESC), which causes problems, and I wanted a single
> g_source with the order of stdin/out/err operations order under my
> control. So calling read() and write() turned out to be easier. giowin
> uses them at the lowest level too.

OK, thanks for the info.