On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Charles Yeomans wrote: > On Mar 9, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > >> On Mar 9, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Charles Yeomans wrote: >> >>> On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Tim Jones wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Folks, >>>> >>>> I've a need to use popen for an operation that I can't achieve with >>>> the RB Shell class. Does anyone have a soft declare for popen() in >>>> libc? The prototype is: >>>> >>>> FILE * popen(const char *command, const char *type); >>> >>> This looks pretty simple; I'll knock out an example if I can find a >>> bit of time. >> >> Thanks, Charles. What I'm running up against is the FILE being a >> pointer to a struct. Since I'll be using fread(), fwrite(), and feof >> () to access the opened pipe, I don't really need the struct, but >> only the filehandle. My curiosity is in how to handle the FILE >> pointer returned and turn it into the filehandle (using fileno() ). > > Why not use fgets and fputs? > Because the pipe is a stream and the data will be coming in continuously. I'm actually providing a DataAvailable and Completed event so that this can be used in the stead of the Shell so I don't need to change the existing code.
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