From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jan 22 17:26:20 2008 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <4725CB62.5090907@highlandsun.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:00:34 -0700 From: Howard Chu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007100901 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jo Even Skarstein Cc: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] Redirecting stdio using Fforce/Fdup References: <44180264.137741193650999885.JavaMail.adm-moff@moffice5.nsc.no> In-Reply-To: <44180264.137741193650999885.JavaMail.adm-moff@moffice5.nsc.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: hyc@highlandsun.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Status: X-Status: X-Keywords: Jo Even Skarstein wrote: > Hi! > > I'm working on a small application that needs to run a .ttp as a child and do some screen scraping on it. Basically I'm building a GEM frontend to an old .TOS-program with a character based UI. > > As I need to run this program under both MiNT and MagiC I can't use pty's, so I assume I must use Fforce/Fdup. The problem is that I don't understand how these calls work, and I'm having trouble finding good documentation and programming examples. Can anyone suggest some readable sources that use these calls, or perhaps explain to me how to use them? It would be extremely helpful :-) > > Jo Even Those functions are pretty much the same as Unix dup/dup2 system calls. You first create a pipe, then Fforce the child's stdout/stderr to write to the pipe. Your parent process then reads the pipe to get all of the child's output. If you also need to feed input to the child, then you'll also need a separate pipe for that, and Fforce it to the child's stdin. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/