Redirect IO of process to Windows socket

Question

I am new to winsock, I tried to write a server socket that accepts new connection, then it calls an external executable file. How can we redirect the stdin and stdout of the

Answer 1

Actually, you can redirect IO to sockets. Just make sure you open the socket with WSASocket instead of socket(), and do NOT specify the WSA_FLAG_OVERLAPPED.

The reason for this is a bit involved. Any "Standard Handles" that you supply to CreateProcess for I/O redirection must be non-overlapped (i.e, do not support overlapped I/O). sockets on Windows are opened overlapped when created with socket() and non-overlapped if created as above with WSASocket.

Also make sure you set bInheritHandles to TRUE in the StartupInfo