[LAD] Program execution in a program with good communications

[Jens M Andreasen]

man popen, pclose is what you are looking for ..

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:37 +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>    This is again a bit OT, but still. I have a program with two pthreads. One 
> pthread is running an audio player on a file repeatedly, the other is waiting 
> for a signal. If "the other" gets the signal or timeout, then it should tell 
> the player to stop. Unfortunitely with mplayer kill -15 doesn't have the 
> desired effect. So I thought:
>    What if I could make mplayer's stdin available to the program and simply 
> send character 'q'. But because of pthreads, I left fork and exec* alone and 
> went with system. Any ideas what to do? If someone knows something nice with 
> fork and the like, I've seen something with pipes for this. Otherwise the 
> player-command I call can be called from within a shell script, so I can do 
> funny things with redirections.
>    I hope I made myself clear and didn't write too much again... :-(
>    Kindest regards
>         Julien
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