> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Fogel [mailto:kfogel@galois.collab.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 7:56 AM
> To: Bruce Korb
> Cc: 'sussman@red-bean.com'; Bill Tutt; SVN Dev List
> Subject: Re: external diff headers
>
>
> Bruce Korb <bkorb@allegronetworks.com> writes:
> > popen(3S) appears in my 4.1 BSD manual (1981) and my
> > System Vr1 manual (1983). The question is, are you
> > worried about Windows & BeOS? I don't know about them.
> > They are short on some pretty standard calls....
>
> Yeah, we are trying to be portable to Windows at least.
Then I would suggest a popen() wrapper for your APR thing.
Generally, a #-define into popen and a kludge around
system() on broken boxes. (run system() redirecting output,
and opening the redirected file when done. Yuck, but then
what can you expect?)
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:20 2006