From: Alexandre Ferrieux <alexandre.ferri...@cnet.francetelecom.fr>
Subject: Re: Separating stderr and stdout with exec/fileevent
Date: 1999/02/01
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Mumit Khan wrote:
> 
> Of course, all of this works just fine under Cygwin version thanks to
> the "join error" (for >1 2>&) bug fix by Ian Taylor as well as his
> other changes that are in the Cygnus version; I've never had trouble
> with fileevents under win32 either.

For your information, this 'bug fix' by Ian Taylor is semantically
incorrect. Look at the arguments on the Scriptics page. It only happens
to make things easier for *your* class of uses, but it is utterly
inconsistent with the rest of Tcl's redirection semantics.

Now there's an interesting implication in your last sentence: the Cygnus
version of Tcl seems to be a good answer to the fevent problem (and also
most other 'doze shortcomings I'm sure). Can you refresh my memory about
the visible issues when using a Cygwin-built application ? Is there a
runtime fee ? What about installation ? Can many versions of the runtime
coexist ?

-Alex