[Buildbot-devel] Re: BuildBot test fails on Win32 platform.

[Eric Hanchrow]

>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Trout <nick at rockstarvancouver.com> writes:

    >> Now, in the windows world, I'm not assuming the existence
    >> anything like process groups, so I'd be fine with setting
    >> usePTY=False all the time

    Nick> Just googling quickly it looks like windows server has a
    Nick> notion of process groups, but don't know anything about them
    Nick> in Windows.  

That sounds right.  I'd forget about process groups on Windows.
Chances are they either

* don't work at all

* aren't documented

* work so differently from the Unix concept of the same name as to be
  insufferably confusing

... or perhaps I'm just being pessimistic ...

    >> fact I think the code does this internally). But does windows
    >> have the concept of stdout vs stderr? From your message it
    >> sounds like it does.

    Nick> Yes it does. But I don't know the caveats involved.

I honestly don't think there are any.  As opposed to "process groups",
as far as I know Windows "does" stdout and stderr just like Unix.

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