Execute a command, creating a pipe to it
#include <stdio.h> FILE* popen( const char* command, const char* mode );
libc
Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.
The popen() function executes the command specified by command and creates a pipe between the calling process and the executed command.
Depending on the mode argument, you can use the returned stream pointer to read from or write to the pipe.
The executed command has the same environment as its parents. The command is started as follows:
spawnlp (P_NOWAIT, shell_command, shell_command, "-c", command, (char* )NULL );
where shell_command is the command specified by the SHELL environment variable (if it exists), or the sh utility.
The mode argument to popen() is a string that specifies an I/O mode for the pipe:
A non-NULL stream pointer on successful completion. If popen() is unable to create either the pipe or the subprocess, it returns a NULL stream pointer and sets errno.
The popen() function may also set errno values as described by the pipe() and spawnl() functions.
/* * upper: executes a given program, converting all input * to upper case. */ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <ctype.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <limits.h> char buffer[_POSIX_ARG_MAX]; int main( int argc, char** argv ) { int i; int c; FILE* f; for( i = 1; i < argc; i++ ) { strcat( buffer, argv[i] ); strcat( buffer, " " ); } if( ( f = popen( buffer, "w" ) ) == NULL ) { perror( "popen" ); return EXIT_FAILURE; } while( ( c = getchar() ) != EOF ) { if( islower( c ) ) c = toupper( c ); putc( c, f ); } pclose( f ); return EXIT_SUCCESS; }
Safety: | |
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Cancellation point | Yes |
Interrupt handler | No |
Signal handler | No |
Thread | Yes |