her3@tank.uchicago.edu (Ben 'Drew' Herman) (11/02/89)
HELP ME...... I've Had it.
I want to spawn a command form a C program and have the output
redirected to a file. (I'd also like to know when the process
has completed - ie wait for the process to complete)
I found forkl,forkv two of my freinds in past C expeditions on other systems.
so I try
forkl("zoo","zoo","l",archivename,NULL,env,&child);
where
struct FORKENV *env
to redirect the output I need to do what??????
I tried env->std_out = filehandle (which read env->stdout in the man)
where filehandle has equaled int, FileHandle *, FILE *; I even set
env->std_out = stdout -- which hangs the machine.
PLEASE HELP ME -- I JUST SPENT 8 Hours trying to do this and I'm pretty fed
Up with the documentation and the computer.
Thanks for your Understanding and help.
PS. I don't read this newsgroup and therefore request a direct reply.
Thanks again
Ben Herman
her3@tank.uchicago.edu
ben@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu
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