On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:22:04PM -0000, William Rowe wrote: > Author: wrowe > Date: Mon Oct 1 13:22:04 2007 > New Revision: 581063 > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=581063&view=rev > Log: > Introduce APR_NO_FILE as an option to apr_procattr_io_set() for any > of the three stdio streams to cause the corresponding streams to NOT > be inherited to a WIN32 child process (passes INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE). > > This is of little importance to most developers, except those who had > exploited an inconsistency between Unix and Win32 that was corrected > on Win32 with APR version 1.2.10. > > The feature to have NO_FILE work across platforms and leave a specified > std stream closed becomes portable in APR version 1.3.0 (it remains > equivilant to APR_NO_PIPE on non-Windows platforms throughout version > APR 1.2.x).
This is an API extension so can't be backported to the 1.2.x branch (per the versioning rules). joe
