[DotGNU]Code redundancies: spawning processes/pipe handling

[Maciek Plewa]

I'm currently porting PNet to MinGW (and hopefully VC++ in near future) 
and found some possibly reduntant code. In both cscc/common/cc_main.c 
and support/spawn.c there's very similar (if not identical) code for 
spawning processes and handling their pipes. Would it be OK to throw out 
the code from cc_main.c and refer to spawn.c instead?

I've used some code from GNU CVS (+ trivial waitpid implementation) to 
handle process spawning and stdout->pipe redirection, but the code is 
slightly bloated, I'll probably implement my own solution. AFAIK except 
for the above, and various waitpid calls around Pnet, there are no 
further portability issues, are there?

Also, I had to rename the function LoadLibrary in cscc/common/cc_main.c 
to LoadLibraryCodeGen, as it was conflicting with an existing Win32 
library. This function is internal (and wrapped with CCLoadLibrary) so 
it shouldn't create any API problems.

PS. You've gotta love the terminology: 'forking children with pipes' :)

--
Maciek Plewa
Military Research and Simulations Initiative

http://mil-sim.net/contact