<unistd.h> for windows platform

[Samuel]

Does anyone know if it exists for windows? Can I only use it on linux?

unistd.h is a library for process control and has functions like pipe and fork.
Thanks

[Moonlit]

Hi,

I don't believe it exists on MS-Windows however windows does have a lot of
unix like functions like _pipe, _popen connect etc.

These functions are contained in io.h dosio.h etc.

I don't believe fork exists however MS-Windows has a similar function to
create processes ( CreateProcess ).

Regards, Ron AF Greve

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Does anyone know if it exists for windows? Can I only use it on linux?

unistd.h is a library for process control and has functions like pipe and
fork.
Thanks

[Tom Widmer]

On 10 Sep 2004 07:33:23 -0700, sa****@gmail.com (Samuel) wrote:

Does anyone know if it exists for windows? Can I only use it on linux?

unistd.h is a library for process control and has functions like pipe and fork.

I believe you get that with cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/

Alternatively, you can manually port the code to Win32 (which has
pipes, but you'll have to use a threading API rather than fork I
think).

Tom