I feared that there would be no pure Go solution. Anyway, I used fdopen variant the code is here https://github.com/zimmski/osutil/blob/master/capture.go#L51 if anyone every stumbles over this thread.
Thanks for the help. On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 1:00:46 PM UTC+2, Uli Kunitz wrote: > > Your program doesn't work because changing os.Stdout and os.Stdin has no > effect on stdio stdin and stdout. Stdio stdout will still reference fd 1 > and stderr fd 2. > > I recommend following three solutions: > > > 1. The simplest approach could be not to use cgo at all and run the C > code in a separate process. Capturing the output of a separate process is > simple and can be done using the os/exec package. > 2. Reset stdin and stdout using fdopen in the C code. This could be > done permanently. > 3. Swap file descriptors using dup2. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.