Bug? - win32pipe.popen2 is moody under W98

[Carey Evans]

"Mark Hammond" <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> writes:

> However, it will be pretty resource hungy - the solution (as
> documented by MS) is to execute a "shim" exe - so each popen on
> Win95/98 will now have _3_ new processes - this shim, command.com
> and the actual .exe you are trying to run.

Is there any chance of a flag, or different functions, to disable the
use of command.com?  When I've tried it, the default behaviour of
CreateProcess() has done everything I've wanted, with the bonus that I
get the return code of the program.

In fact, if I knew I was calling a 32-bit app I should be able to do
without the shim, but it's also not that hard to roll my own in that
case.

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