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Re: [PATCH 5/8] Teach run_command how to setup a stdin pipe

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 10, 2007, 16:54 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0703101753440.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> Sometimes callers trying to use run_command to execute a child process 
> will want to setup a pipe or file descriptor to redirect into the 
> child's stdin.
> 
> This idea is completely stolen from builtin-bundle's fork_with_pipe, 
> written by Johannes Schindelin.  All credit (and blame) should lie with 
> Dscho.  ;-)
;-)

Thank you for starting this thread. I think it makes a lot of sense in the face of the MinGW port. (I am not interested in the hook stuff personally, so I'll not comment on that.)

Ciao, Dscho

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