Re: popen() works, but now?

["Timothy M. Shead" <tshead k-3d com>]

Ronald Bultje wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I learned to use FILE *some_pipe = popen(command,"w"); to open a program
> and write some data to it's stdin. The program receives the data I send to
> it (press enter to continue -> fprintf(some_pipe, "\n");, for example), but
> for some reason, this takes effect *after* I close my main application.
> Should I make this a thread or something? It is supposed to receive and
> process this data *while* the main application is running.

I believe the output from fprintf is buffered - you probably need to 
flush the stream:

fflush(some_pipe);

Regards,
Timothy M. Shead
tshead k-3d com