On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:01:14PM -0600, Topher Fischer wrote: > 2. What's the best practice for getting output from an external command? > I've heard of it being done by forking, overwriting the child's file > descriptors for stdin and stdout with pipes, and then exec'ing the > command. > have you checked popen? -M - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html