On Sep 29, 2012, at 11:20 AM, "Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good point Bill. I hadn't actually looked too deeply here; I just wanted to appease the buildbot. See: http://buildbot.wireshark.org/trunk/builders/Windows-XP-x86/builds/2646/steps/nmake%20all/logs/stdio
>
> So maybe a minimal patch such as this is what is needed? Maybe that was the original intent?
> - Chris
>
> Index: ui/gtk/gui_utils.c
Just out of curiosity, given that we no longer support Windows OT (95, 98, Me), does the comment
/* Tricky to use pipes in win9x, as no concept of wait. NT can
do this but that doesn't cover all win32 platforms. GTK can do
this but doesn't seem to work over processes. Attempt to do
something similar here, start a timer and check for data on every
timeout. */
in pipe_input_set_handler() still apply, or can we now handle pipes on Windows the same way we do on UN*X? If so, that would at least reduce the number of places where we need to ask for the exit status of a process.