system() question
L. Scott Emmons
emmonsl at athena.ecs.csus.edu
Mon Mar 4 03:52:34 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar2.181423.13981 at csusac.csus.edu> I wrote:
>Also, you are _much_ better off doing a fork() and then an exec()
>instead of a system()...system just does the equivalent of a fork()
[...]
Ack, I made a bit of an error in this post. You will also need to set
up a pipe() to properly handle the redirection. I assume you were going
to take the file then and read it back into the program? If so, a pipe()
works well for this.
Sorry for the mistake...
L. Scott Emmons
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