Or alternatively, would it help if glib had its own implementation of 'pipe()' etc, to go along with g_open(), g_fopen() etc? I couldn't find any such implementation (just making a cursory search) but presumably that would also solve the problem without impacting on MinGW usage?? John _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list