Re: win2k, service, pg_ctl, popen, etc

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>The version check is centralized in one place, exec.c, and I don't want
>to have different behaviors on Win32 and Unix if we can help it.  Let's
>go with the system() into a temp file.
>
>  
>

I had another thought - would the popen work for a nonconsole app (e.g. 
a service) if we redirect stdin from the nul device (and maybe also do 
stderr via 2>&1), so it doesn't try to inherit from the caller, which 
doesn't have these?

cheers

andrew

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