From kde-core-devel  Sat Apr 15 17:37:15 2006
From: Matt Rogers <mattr () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:37:15 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KProcess overhaul
Message-Id: <200604151237.15660.mattr () kde ! org>
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On Saturday 15 April 2006 12:21, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 07:13:45PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > As far as I understood, are pipes already used on unix to communicate
> > between parent and child process
>
> yes
>
> > for example to detect child process termination,
>
> not really.
>
> > to receive stdin and to send stdout/stderr data.
>
> yes. on windows not?
>
> > Is this right ?
> > "Adding pty support requires to add some hooks (probably by defining
> > virtual class methods in the QProcess implementation), which could be
> > used in an inherited class for setup and other required stuff."
>
> roughly. but i don't like the idea at all. if tt implemented a
> redirection api as powerful as i suggested, no special hooks would be
> required. unfortunately, they seem reluctant to exposing file
> descriptors in the api. let's see what they come up with instead.

Aren't file descriptors *nix specific? If they are, that could be why they're 
against it.
--
Matt