Redirect ouput to another instance terminal window.

[johnlovestohate]

Hi friends,

I have a simple question to ask. How can I open a new terminal window from a C++ program so that i can redirect the output that i want to monitor during the execution of a program, I don't want to use the same terminal window from which I am running the code. This doesn't sound so difficult but I couldn't find a solution on google. I am running the code on a Linux machine and using GCC.

Thanks,
John.

[brewbuck]

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#include <unistd.h>

FILE *LaunchLogWindow()
{
    char *name = tempnam(NULL, NULL);
    char cmd[256];

    mkfifo(name, 0777);
    if(fork() == 0)
    {
	sprintf(cmd, "xterm -e cat %s", name);
	system(cmd);
	exit(0);
    }
    return fopen(name, "w");
}

int main()
{
    FILE *log = LaunchLogWindow();
    for(;;)
    {
	fprintf(log, "Hello world!\n");
    }
}

A few bits are missing. Nothing cleans up the FIFO. I don't check for errors. It uses a C FILE object instead of a C++ ofstream. But you get the point.