How to read the execl() output?

[estratos]

Which is the best way of getting the output from an execl() call? This call generates some console output and I need to do some kind of capture.

Thanks,

Daniel.

[quzah]

Pipe it.


Quzah.

[estratos]

Thanks Quzah for your reply.

Does freopen use pipes?
I'm doing

FILE* fpStdout = freopen(STDOUTFILE, "w+", stdout);
system("ls");

[Salem]

FILE *fp = popen("ls","r");
pclose(fp);

Then use fgets() like you would for any other regular file.

Is "ls" just an example, or are you really trying to use ls to get a directory listing into the program?
If so, look up opendir / readdir / closedir