Re: Piping an application which uses fork()

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Mar 12, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Stefano Esposito wrote:

> Now the command i call is a programm written in C and uses fork(), 
> when i try to grab its output i obtain only the output that comes out 
> before the fork() call, while all the other out come in the consolle 
> from which i run my program. Where's my error?

i'll guess that the C program doesn't use the same stdout for its 
fork()ed child as it does for itself.  not sure why that would be, 
because iirc the file descriptors are inherited by child processes.

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