12-23-2006
thank u
thank u .
but i want use the output of the shell scripting program
if i use popen.
how can i get the output of the progarm
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
popen
POPEN(3) BSD Library Functions Manual POPEN(3)
NAME
popen, pclose -- process I/O
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
FILE *
popen(const char *command, const char *type);
int
pclose(FILE *stream);
DESCRIPTION
The popen() function ``opens'' a process by creating a bidirectional pipe forking, and invoking the shell. Any streams opened by previous
popen() calls in the parent process are closed in the new child process. Historically, popen() was implemented with a unidirectional pipe;
hence many implementations of popen() only allow the type argument to specify reading or writing, not both. Since popen() is now implemented
using a bidirectional pipe, the type argument may request a bidirectional data flow. The type argument is a pointer to a null-terminated
string which must be 'r' for reading, 'w' for writing, or 'r+' for reading and writing.
A letter 'e' may be appended to that to request that the underlying file descriptor be set close-on-exec.
The command argument is a pointer to a null-terminated string containing a shell command line. This command is passed to /bin/sh using the
-c flag; interpretation, if any, is performed by the shell.
The return value from popen() is a normal standard I/O stream in all respects save that it must be closed with pclose() rather than fclose().
Writing to such a stream writes to the standard input of the command; the command's standard output is the same as that of the process that
called popen(), unless this is altered by the command itself. Conversely, reading from a ``popened'' stream reads the command's standard
output, and the command's standard input is the same as that of the process that called popen().
Note that output popen() streams are fully buffered by default.
The pclose() function waits for the associated process to terminate and returns the exit status of the command as returned by wait4(2).
RETURN VALUES
The popen() function returns NULL if the fork(2) or pipe(2) calls fail, or if it cannot allocate memory.
The pclose() function returns -1 if stream is not associated with a ``popened'' command, if stream already ``pclosed'', or if wait4(2)
returns an error.
ERRORS
The popen() function does not reliably set errno.
SEE ALSO
sh(1), fork(2), pipe(2), wait4(2), fclose(3), fflush(3), fopen(3), stdio(3), system(3)
HISTORY
A popen() and a pclose() function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
Bidirectional functionality was added in FreeBSD 2.2.6.
BUGS
Since the standard input of a command opened for reading shares its seek offset with the process that called popen(), if the original process
has done a buffered read, the command's input position may not be as expected. Similarly, the output from a command opened for writing may
become intermingled with that of the original process. The latter can be avoided by calling fflush(3) before popen().
Failure to execute the shell is indistinguishable from the shell's failure to execute command, or an immediate exit of the command. The only
hint is an exit status of 127.
The popen() function always calls sh(1), never calls csh(1).
BSD
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