On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:45:54 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer
<[email protected]> wrote:
a while ago (2008 or 09 I believe?), I was using Tango's Process object
to execute programs on a remote agent, and forwarding all the resulting
data back over the network. On Linux, I used select to read data as it
arrived. On Windows, I think I had to spawn off a separate thread to
wait for data/child processes.
More coming back to me now -- Windows pipes actually suck quite a bit.
You can't use the normal mechanisms to wait for data on them.
I also needed to spawn threads so I could combine the event-driven wait
for socket data from the remote instance with the data from the pipes. I
seem to remember opening a socket to my own process in order to do this.
-Steve
