Re: stderr piping under win32

Andreas Pflug writes:
> I wonder why pgpipe is implemented like this, maybe 
> because the initial coder didn't know how to inherit handles 
> obtained by _pipe(...).

IIRC, it is because the handles returned by the pipe call are later
select()'d on with other sockets, which is not possible with handles
returned by _pipe.

Cheers,
Claudio

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