On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:14:27 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:37 AM, scott Ford wrote: > >> I was reading through IBM Unix services manuals and have a pipe question.. >> If I as a STC ..issue a Unix command after a PIPE was established and >> retrieve output of the >> command, ... > >You can set the descriptor to be non-blocking using the BPX1FCT call. >https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxb100/fct.htm > ... I wondered briefly, naively.whether popen() might be the simplest approach to this problem. Then I came to my senses and remembered, it's FILE * popen( ... ); and COBOL is probably not FILE*-savvy. (Or is it?) It's a pity there isn't a more basic popen() returning a descriptor rather than a FILE*.
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