From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:54:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] Teach run_command how to setup a stdin pipe
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703101753440.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070310082808.GE4133@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> 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