What is the equivalent to Posix popen() in the Win32 API?

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MSDN explains how you do what popen does using the Windows API in Pipe Handle Inheritance . Here it provides a well-documented example. It’s way more low-level than the _popen function found in the runtime library linked by Jason, but uses the Win32 API exclusively.

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