🚀 go-pugleaf

forget i asked, i think i know where i've done wrong.

Paul



"Paul Ooi" <yitung.ooi@student.unsw.edu.au> wrote in message
news:3f05324b@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Please have a look at the code below, I am trying to redirect the output
of
> cmd.exe to a TMemo.
>
>    HANDLE HNDChildStdoutRd, HNDChildStdoutWr, HNDChildStdinRd,
> HNDChildStdinWr;
>
>     SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES saAttr;
>     saAttr.nLength= sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES);
>     saAttr.bInheritHandle = TRUE;
>     saAttr.lpSecurityDescriptor = NULL;
>
>     if (!CreatePipe(&HNDChildStdoutRd, &HNDChildStdoutWr, &saAttr, 0))
>         PrintError("Stdout pipe creation failed.");
>
>     if (!CreatePipe(&HNDChildStdinRd, &HNDChildStdinWr, &saAttr, 0))
>         PrintError("Stdin pipe creation failed.");
>
>     PROCESS_INFORMATION piProcInfo;
>     STARTUPINFO siStartInfo;
>
>     ZeroMemory(&piProcInfo, sizeof(PROCESS_INFORMATION));
>     ZeroMemory(&siStartInfo, sizeof(STARTUPINFO));
>
>     siStartInfo.cb = sizeof(STARTUPINFO);
>     siStartInfo.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW | STARTF_USESTDHANDLES;
>     siStartInfo.wShowWindow = SW_SHOW;
>     siStartInfo.hStdOutput = HNDChildStdoutWr;
>     siStartInfo.hStdInput = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
>     siStartInfo.hStdError = GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE);
>
>     if (!CreateProcess("C:\\Windows\\System32\\Cmd.exe", NULL, NULL, NULL,
> TRUE, CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE, NULL, NULL, &siStartInfo, &piProcInfo))
>         PrintError("Process creation failed.");
>
>
> It works fine but the problem is ReadFile(HNDChildStdoutRd, ......) does
not
> return when I close cmd.exe, how do I make it return with error when
cmd.exe
> is closed so that it does not make my program stopped responding ?
>
> Paul
>
>