Writing to child process file descriptor
I have a program "Sample" which takes input both from stdin and a non-standard file descriptor (3 or 4) as shown below
int pfds[2];
pipe(pfds);
printf("%s","\nEnter input for stdin");
read(0, pO, 5); 开发者_StackOverflow中文版
printf("\nEnter input for fds 3");
read(pfds[0], pX, 5);
printf("\nOutput stout");
write(1, pO, strlen(pO));
printf("\nOutput fd 4");
write(pfds[1], pX, strlen(pX));
Now i have another program "Operator" which executes the above program(Sample) in a child process using execv. Now what i want is to send input to "Sample" through the "Operator" .
After forking the child process, but before calling execve
, you'll have to call dup2(2)
to redirect the child process' stdin
descriptor to the read end of your pipe. Here is a simple piece of code without much error checking:
pipe(pfds_1); /* first pair of pipe descriptors */
pipe(pfds_2); /* second pair of pipe descriptors */
switch (fork()) {
case 0: /* child */
/* close write ends of both pipes */
close(pfds_1[1]);
close(pfds_2[1]);
/* redirect stdin to read end of first pipe, 4 to read end of second pipe */
dup2(pfds_1[0], 0);
dup2(pfds_2[0], 4);
/* the original read ends of the pipes are not needed anymore */
close(pfds_1[0]);
close(pfds_2[0]);
execve(...);
break;
case -1:
/* could not fork child */
break;
default: /* parent */
/* close read ends of both pipes */
close(pfds_1[0]);
close(pfds_2[0]);
/* write to first pipe (delivers to stdin in the child) */
write(pfds_1[1], ...);
/* write to second pipe (delivers to 4 in the child) */
write(pfds_2[1], ...);
break;
}
This way everything you write to the first pipe from the parent process will be delivered to the child process via descriptor 0
(stdin
), and everything you write from the second pipe will be delivered to descriptor 4
as well.
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