Bi-directional popen()
| From: | Anil Madhavapeddy | Date: | Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:54:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Bi-directional popen() | ||
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This has come up a few times, but is there any chance of having a
bi-directional popen() that doesn't depend on the underlying system
call supporting it?
It would hugely speed up and clean up a lot of code that interacts
with the system, but right now it only works under FreeBSD/BSDi
that I found, and isn't really widely deployed.
Perl's had this capability for a while, so it must be possible
somehow (although I haven't delved into its implementation)
Anil