Well to get the Glib functionality we are talking about, only requires the most basic Glib lib, which is only a 1.5 Meg download, at Glib for Windows And that simple download will make the code shown by ikegami at Re: Please suggest a non-forking way to do this (OS: windows) (solution) seem way too complex.

Glib gives you a nice event loop and select on pipes, with a simple syntax, and is cross-platform. With Glib you can write the same pipe-open code for linux and win32, whearas Win32 modules are single platform.

To be honest, that is far less than all the f*cking vb dlls you need to download to make most of that win32 crap run. No wonder the minimal space required for a Vista install is 20 gigs.

Don't you consider that recommending the installation of 20 gigs of virus prone win32 crap a bit extreme for a problem that can be solved with 1 gig linux box? :-)