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Re: Fwd: fork and exec

On 19:39 Sat 24 May     , Michael Blizek wrote:
> If you searching for an "exec() which starts a command in a new process" you
> can look at the system() call. If you want to read/write from/to stdout/stdin,
> you can use popen. If you want to do both, have have to do a fork(), some
> dup2() and an exec(). See
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Processes.html#Processes
> under "Running a Command"/"Pipe to a Subprocess".

(I meant both read *and* write from/to stdout/shdin of a single process you
created)


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