Hello everyone,, Though these questions may bwe boardering on the relm of programming, I wasn't really sure where else to ask them, I am aware of the blindprogramming list, but don't like to sign up to lists with high traffic like that one, because sometimes its hard for me to check my email, and when I get back (just from being on the blindgamers list, and the three lists owned by the same organization as the programming at blindprogramming) after not reading email for like 4 days, I had over 700 emails. Anyway, I have a couple questions, I read up on fork, and found that it isn't just something used to eat your food with, but you can spawn other processes with it. But, my main idea was a pipe, I wanted to spawn a child process, and create a pipe to it, so I read up on pipes to. The only thing I have been able to find is how to get my process to execute shell commands, Do I have to stick to shell commands, or can I actually switch execution between child and parent. Also, how do I get the pid of the parent process? Last, I want to start playing with TCP. If I send in the raw mode, can I just send a struct as a packet? If so, that will only take me reading up on how packetts are formed (I know the basics) but not the exact ways, and then I can just create a struct to represent a packet, and send it to where ever I wish. I also as a little example wish to create a ping program, and a port scanner, I can do the port scanner fairly easy I think, with minimal research, but what does the ping program do? I haven't been able to figure that one out, and I have used numerous packett sniffers. Things just look garbled. Thanks for your help, Tyler Littlefield. Check out our website: http://tysplace.the-leetest.net check out my blog: livejournal.com/~tylerrl [my programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features] [failure is not an option, it comes bundled with windows!]
