SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include "rfio_api.h"

FILE *rfio_popen (const char *command, const char *type);

int rfio_pclose (FILE *fs);

DESCRIPTION

rfio_popen starts a process and opens a pipe to it.

command is a pointer to a string specifying the shell command to be executed.

type is a mode indicator for the pipe. One of the characters "r" or "w".

rfio_pclose waits for the forked process to terminate and returns the exit status of the command.

EXAMPLE

        int c;
        FILE *rf;
        rf = rfio_popen (command, "r");
        if (rf == NULL) {
                rfio_perror ("rfio_popen");
                exit (1);
        }
        while ((c = rfio_pread (buf, 1, sizeof(buf), rf)) > 0) {
                ...
        }
        c = rfio_pclose (rf);

RETURN VALUE

This routine returns NULL if the operation failed or a non-NULL pointer to a FILE structure if the operation was successful. If it fails, serrno variable is set appropriately.

AUTHOR

LCG Grid Deployment Team