https://www.guido-flohr.net/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:07:24 +0000 Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:07:24 +0000 Qgoda vv0.11.0 (https://www.qgoda.net/) <img src="/assets/images/platform-independent-child-process-io-multiplexing/metal-pipes-and-machinery.jpeg" width="100%">Spawning subprocesses and catching their standard output and standard error channels sounds like a trivial task but it is somewhat tricky to make it also work on Windows because of the platform's numerous quirks. It is, however, feasible, as the instructions below show. Code is provided for both C and Perl. You should be able to port it to other scripting languages without major problems. Sun, 03 Sep 2023 21:00:00 +0000 https://www.guido-flohr.net/platform-independent-asynchronous-child-process-ipc/index.html https://www.guido-flohr.net/platform-independent-asynchronous-child-process-ipc/index.html Development Perl MS-DOS Windows Development