Re: call an external program and save or show output

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Benno Mielke wrote:

> Could anybody say how to call an external program (like gcc/g++ or nmap) ?
> For example when I write a program that scans a host and I want to run nmap and show (and/or save ...) the 
> output in a new widget. Is there a possibility ?
>
> And I don't want to use the system() function :)

Look up the g_spawn family in the glib documentation, at

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/

if you don't have a local copy.  Or more specifically:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Spawning-Processes.html

Allin Cottrell.