Re: Q: FILE* popen command shell calls

From: James Lehman (james[remove)
Date: 12/12/04

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    "2>&1"
    Beautiful.
    Thanks!

    <Jens.Toerring@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote in message
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    > James Lehman <james[remove]@akrobiz.com> wrote:
    > > What's the short answer to get the output of dd,
    > > good or bad, into a string?
    >
    > It depends. If you don't mind having standard output and standard
    > error intermixed in the output then simple run you command with
    > standard error redirected to stdout (i.e. with "2>&1" appended to
    > the command). Otherwise you need, as the others already pointed
    > out, to write your own version of popen(), creating a pipe, fork(),
    > redirect the stderr of the command to the pipe (with dup() or
    > dup2()) and then use one of the exec-functions to invoke the
    > command. Then start reading on the pipe.
    >
    > Regards, Jens
    > --
    > \ Jens Thoms Toerring ___ Jens.Toerring@physik.fu-berlin.de
    > \__________________________ http://www.toerring.de

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