RE: LabVIEW SSH Tools

[Dees, I. <Ian...@an...>]

Hi, everyone.

> Not sure what the advantage of this would be. Win32 specific 
> code will be in there anyway and msvcrt is just built on top 
> of the Win32 API so you basically add another software layer 
> to it. And last but not least msvcrt is not fully POSIX 
> complaint so you may end up with platform differences even there.

Well, the main issues would be ease of calling from LabVIEW, or
ease of wrapping in a DLL.  There are several gotchas with
unnamed pipes on Windows; it's at least possible that the POSIX
layer, while not a perfect emulator, uses more sensible blocking
semantics.

I like your approach with named pipes.  This may indeed work better;
one thing to watch out for, though, is that IIRC named pipes are
only available for NT/2000/XP and not for 95/98/Me (don't know
about CE/PocketPC).

--Ian