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Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bash&cmd): shellscompete for input with user program!
- From: Sam Steingold <sds at gnu dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 22 Jul 2003 12:23:18 -0400
- Subject: Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bash&cmd): shellscompete for input with user program!
- Organization: disorganization
- References: <uadb68wgz.fsf@gnu.org> <20030722145702.GA17342@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: sds at gnu dot org
> * In message <20030722145702.GA17342@redhat.com>
> * On the subject of "Re: subprocess i/o interaction with shell (bash&cmd): shells compete for input with user program!"
> * Sent on Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:57:02 -0400
> * Honorable Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd@cygwin.com> writes:
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:30:52AM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
> >So, how can I exit driver and have the shell notice that its child
> >(driver) left a heir (runtime) and that the shell (bash & cmd) should
> >wait for runtime to finish.
>
> You have two processes reading standard input at the same time?
yes, bash/cmd & runtime do read stdin simultaneously,
but I do NOT want that!
> The expected behavior in that situation is that it is unpredictable
> which process gets which keystroke.
yep.
> You want the parent of the parent of a process to know that there is a
> grandchild process sitting around waiting for input and have the
> grandparent (bash or cmd) wait for the grandchild to finish?
precisely!
> Under cygwin you'd accomplish this by having the parent process use
> one of the "exec" calls.
nope. doesn't work either.
I get the same "input competition" when I use exec().
> There is no way to do what you want in a normal Windows program.
are you sure? :-(
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