man popen, pclose is what you are looking for .. On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:37 +0200, Julien Claassen wrote: > Hello everyone! > This is again a bit OT, but still. I have a program with two pthreads. One > pthread is running an audio player on a file repeatedly, the other is waiting > for a signal. If "the other" gets the signal or timeout, then it should tell > the player to stop. Unfortunitely with mplayer kill -15 doesn't have the > desired effect. So I thought: > What if I could make mplayer's stdin available to the program and simply > send character 'q'. But because of pthreads, I left fork and exec* alone and > went with system. Any ideas what to do? If someone knows something nice with > fork and the like, I've seen something with pipes for this. Otherwise the > player-command I call can be called from within a shell script, so I can do > funny things with redirections. > I hope I made myself clear and didn't write too much again... :-( > Kindest regards > Julien > > -------- > Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) > > ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== > http://ltsb.sourceforge.net > the Linux TextBased Studio guide > ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= > http://www.juliencoder.de > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
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