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1.1.1.2 ! root        1: Sample: using anonymous pipe to capture child process output
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                      3: Summary:
                      4: 
                      5: The sample INHERIT demonstrates how to redirect standard
1.1.1.2 ! root        6: output and standard error to an anonymous pipe using two different
        !             7: techniques: passing anonymouse pipe handles to the child in the
        !             8: STARTUPINFO structure, and by setting anonymous pipe handles as the
        !             9: standard handles with the SetStdHandle API and having the child
        !            10: process inherit them.
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                     12: In the sample, a child process is started whose standard
                     13: output and standard error handles have been redirected to an
                     14: anonymous pipe. The parent reads out of this pipe and puts
                     15: the data to both the console and to a log file specified on
                     16: the command line.
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1.1.1.2 ! root       18: Additional reference words:
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                     20:    CloseHandle    CreateProcess  ReadFile       
1.1.1.2 ! root       21:    CreateFile     GetLastError   CreatePipe     
        !            22:    WriteFile      

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