I'm interested in running another application from within my program and
capturing the stdout-output it spits out.

Could anyone direct me which API functions I should be looking into? I'm
interested to get it working under Linux and Mac OS X.



Thanks in advance.

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"John Smith" <js@x-formation.com> writes:

> I'm interested in running another application from within my program and
> capturing the stdout-output it spits out.
>
> Could anyone direct me which API functions I should be looking into? I'm
> interested to get it working under Linux and Mac OS X.

signal, pipe, fork, dup or dup2, execv or execl, read.

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In article <87lkx0rp1h.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>,
Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

> "John Smith" <js@x-formation.com> writes:
> 
>
> signal, pipe, fork, dup or dup2, execv or execl, read.

Simpler is popen()

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