From: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Unable to fdopen() a pipe handle 14 Jul 1998 16:46:11 -0700 Message-ID: <19980714114946.767.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1b.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Craig Setera Cc: gw32 ---Craig Setera wrote: > > I've got a chunk of code that create an anonymous pipe using pipe() and then > attempts to create a write stream on the pipe using fdopen() (something like > this... from memory... not necessarily correct): > > int mypipe[2]; > FILE *mystream; > > pipe(mypipe); > mystream = fdopen(mypipe[1], "w"); > > I can't seem to get fdopen() to return anything other than NULL. Any thoughts? Well, I thought I had some then I started some research. I've drawn the conclusion that it won't work because the pipes are half-duplex. However, you should be able to fopen a /dev/null and use dup2 to accomplish what you want (maybe:). Anybody else? == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd@yahoo.com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".