Very Computer

I'm writting a testing framework and need to spawn new Unix process.
However I need to redirect the StdOut of the Unix Process to a flat file for
storage.  For instance for the code below:

    if ((pid = fork ()) < 0) {
      err_sys("fork error");
    }
    if (pid == 0) {

Quote:>>>      execlp (buf, buf, (char *) 0);

I want to beable to redirect the StdIn and StdOut for the line

execlp (buf, buf, (char *) 0);

so I can output char to the process and receive the output from the process
and store it.

Does anybody have any suggestions?  So far I have been looking around on the
net and couldn't find anything at all.

Thanks,

The Poor  Programmer

Quote:>I'm writting a testing framework and need to spawn new Unix process.
>However I need to redirect the StdOut of the Unix Process to a flat file for
>storage.  For instance for the code below:
>Does anybody have any suggestions?  So far I have been looking around on the
>net and couldn't find anything at all.

also, this group is about using the various shells, comp.unix.programmer is
better for c programming on a unix/posix/sus platform.

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 > I'm writting a testing framework and need to spawn new Unix process.
 > However I need to redirect the StdOut of the Unix Process to a flat file for
 > storage.  For instance for the code below:
 >
 >     if ((pid = fork ()) < 0) {
 >       err_sys("fork error");
 >     }
 >     if (pid == 0) {
 >
 >>>>     execlp (buf, buf, (char *) 0);
 >
 >       err_ret ("Couldn't execute : %s", buf);
 >       exit (127);
 >     }
 >
 > I want to beable to redirect the StdIn and StdOut for the line
 >
 > execlp (buf, buf, (char *) 0);
 >
 > so I can output char to the process and receive the output from the process
 > and store it.

Before the execlp() you could set up the file descriptors in any
way you like. Example:

    in = open ("somepath", O_RDONLY);
    out = open ("someotherpath", O_WRONLY);

    if ( (pid = fork ()) < 0 )
        /* error */
    else if ( pid == 0 ) {    /* child process */
        if ( close (0) == -1 || dup (in) != 0 )
            perror ("cannot redirect stdin");
        if ( close (1) == -1 || dup (out) != 1 )
            perror ("cannot redirect stdout");
        execlp (...);
    }

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