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Top Forums Programming How to clear the content of a pipe (STDIN) after it is written to another program? Post 302195285 by vvaidyan on Wednesday 14th of May 2008 05:28:11 PM
Old 05-14-2008
Shamrock, sorry about not providing proper details previously.

Program A does have main() fn separately. Program A and B are completely two different programs, just that Program B is called through execl() in Program A.

Following are additional details on Program A.

PROGRAM A

Code:
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
     // This program accepts several customized options through socket.
     // The option/module I am writing is called SearchFiles
     // This program does not exit until another option Terminate is called through client socket
     // Meaning, SearchFiles option can be called more than once
     // SearchFiles does operation nothing to do with pipes. it does a customized path translation. 
     // The data that it passes to StartPipe() method is only the socket and the path in a char array as below:

     sockinetbuf s;
     string socket_data;
     s >> socket_data;
     while(s)
     {
          s >> socket_data;

          if (socket_data == "SearchFiles")
          {
               char input_to_program_b[1000] = "blah blah blah";
               StartPipe(s, input_to_program_b);
          }
          else if (socket_data == "Terminate")
          {
               exit(0);
          }
     }
}

Function StartPipe() is as given in the first post.

Thanks,
Vivek

Last edited by vvaidyan; 05-14-2008 at 06:35 PM..
 

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BSWAP(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  BSWAP(3)

NAME
bswap_16, bswap_32, bswap_64 - reverse order of bytes SYNOPSIS
#include <byteswap.h> bswap_16(x); bswap_32(x); bswap_64(x); DESCRIPTION
These macros return a value in which the order of the bytes in their 2-, 4-, or 8-byte arguments is reversed. RETURN VALUE
These macros return the value of their argument with the bytes reversed. ERRORS
These macros always succeed. CONFORMING TO
These macros are GNU extensions. EXAMPLE
The program below swaps the bytes of the 8-byte integer supplied as its command-line argument. The following shell session demonstrates the use of the program: $ ./a.out 0x0123456789abcdef 0x123456789abcdef ==> 0xefcdab8967452301 Program source #include <stdio.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <inttypes.h> #include <byteswap.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { uint64_t x; if (argc != 2) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <num> ", argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } x = strtoul(argv[1], NULL, 0); printf("0x%" PRIx64 " ==> 0x%" PRIx64 " ", x, bswap_64(x)); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } SEE ALSO
byteorder(3), endian(3) Linux 2019-03-06 BSWAP(3)
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