C/C++ library to access a process's stdin and stdout?

[xman]

I'm looking for a C/C++ library that can get access to the stdin and
stdout of a process. I may invoke a external program in a C/C++
program, but how do write data into the stdin of the external program,
and read data out from the stdout of the external program?

Suggestions are much appreciated.

[Gianni Mariani]

On May 13, 10:02 pm, xman <[e-mail]:

I'm looking for a C/C++ library that can get access to the stdin and
stdout of a process. I may invoke a external program in a C/C++
program, but how do write data into the stdin of the external program,
and read data out from the stdout of the external program?

Suggestions are much appreciated.

Is the external program already running or does your program start the
external program.

In general there is no C++ standard (and so off topic here) way to do
what you ask but Linux/Unix machines use "popen" and I think Win32 has
a similar _popen function.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...4b(VS.80).aspx

Any further questions should be directed to a more relevant news
group.

[Ron AF Greve]

Hi,

Using unix/linux you can do this by closing 0 (input) and 1 (output)
close(0) close(1) in combination with pipe. Then fork another process
(which inherits its parents file descriptors and use the other and of the
pipe created. Sincd file desciptors are assigned beginning with the lowest
available stdin and stdout will be assigned to the pipe.
Regards, Ron AF Greve

http://www.InformationSuperHighway.eu

"xman" <cs******@gmail.comwrote in message
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I'm looking for a C/C++ library that can get access to the stdin and
stdout of a process. I may invoke a external program in a C/C++
program, but how do write data into the stdin of the external program,
and read data out from the stdout of the external program?

Suggestions are much appreciated.

[Ron AF Greve]

In additon, a little googling for pipe, close, open gives:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cse533/asgn1/pipes.html

Regards, Ron AF Greve

http://www.InformationSuperHighway.eu

"Ron AF Greve" <ron@localhostwrote in message
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Hi,

Using unix/linux you can do this by closing 0 (input) and 1 (output)
close(0) close(1) in combination with pipe. Then fork another process
(which inherits its parents file descriptors and use the other and of the
pipe created. Sincd file desciptors are assigned beginning with the lowest
available stdin and stdout will be assigned to the pipe.
Regards, Ron AF Greve

http://www.InformationSuperHighway.eu

"xman" <cs******@gmail.comwrote in message
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>I'm looking for a C/C++ library that can get access to the stdin and
stdout of a process. I may invoke a external program in a C/C++
program, but how do write data into the stdin of the external program,
and read data out from the stdout of the external program?

Suggestions are much appreciated.

[Michael DOUBEZ]

xman a écrit :

I'm looking for a C/C++ library that can get access to the stdin and
stdout of a process. I may invoke a external program in a C/C++
program, but how do write data into the stdin of the external program,
and read data out from the stdout of the external program?

Suggestions are much appreciated.

I have used pstream with success. It is basically a wrapper around
popen/pclose.

See: http://pstreams.sourceforge.net/

Michael