Windows: Implement start_command().

On Windows, we have spawnv() variants to run a child process instead of
fork()/exec(). In order to attach pipe ends to stdin, stdout, and stderr,
we have to use this idiom:

    save1 = dup(1);
    dup2(pipe[1], 1);
    spawnv();
    dup2(save1, 1);
    close(pipe[1]);

assuming that the descriptors created by pipe() are not inheritable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index 0ce9c96f9..0879894c6 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h
@@ -165,3 +165,11 @@ sig_handler_t mingw_signal(int sig, sig_handler_t handler);
 #define is_dir_sep(c) ((c) == '/' || (c) == '\\')
 #define PATH_SEP ';'
 #define PRIuMAX "I64u"
+
+/*
+ * helpers
+ */
+
+char **copy_environ(void);
+void free_environ(char **env);
+char **env_setenv(char **env, const char *name);