Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Is there any way to tell bash to do something like this? If there isn't, I
> think it would be nice to have it (maybe through a builtin or something).
>
> int p1[2];
> int p2[2];
>
> pipe(p1);
> pipe(p2);
>
> if (fork () == 0)
> {
> close (0); dup (p1[0]);
> close (1); dup (p2[1]);
> exec(whatever);
> }
>
> if (fork () == 0)
> {
> close (0); dup (p2[0]);
> close (1); dup (p1[1]);
> exec(whatever);
> }
>
> I.e, each process communicates with the other via stdin/stdout, and we get the
> actual results via stderr.
Where would you use it?
--
William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toronto, Canada
ThinFlash: Linux thin-client on USB key (flash) drive
http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/thinflash.html
BashDiff: Super Bash shell
http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/
.
_______________________________________________
Bug-bash mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
