Re: g_spawn_async_with_pipes and WIN32

["Alan M. Evans" <gtkappdevellist alanevans org>]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:37 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> Alan M. Evans writes:
>  > The process being called simply prints a short message and returns. I
>  > see the message if I execute the program from a command prompt under
>  > Windows. The linux version works, In the Windows version, _read() always
>  > returns -1, errno=EBADF.
>
> Does your code use the same C runtime library as GLib does,
> msvcrt.dll, which is part of the operating system? If not, the file
> handles returned have no meaning in your code. File handles are
> basically indexes into a table in the C library. Microsoft in their
> infinite wisdom provides so many C runtimes libraries, and their newer
> tools for some reason don't allow building code against msvcrt.dll...
>
> If you want to use msvcrt.dll, you should either use the older, but
> for plain C still perfectly usable, Visual C 6.0. Or use gcc,
> i.e. mingw.

This is being compiled with VC6, and does depend (indirectly) on
msvcrt.dll. Are you saying that my method should work in this
circumstance?