dup2 equivalant on windows?

I'm writing a program that calculates prime numbers and I would like to put the output to a file if the user gave a filename for an argument.

Unfortunately I have to use windows and not linux, so the easiest option of

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if(dup2(fileno(stdout), open(argv[1], O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL))<0)
    perror("Error");
}

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and then printing to stdout all the time wont work. Is there another option I can use to do this?

I would like to avoid ifs in the actual section where I would print the primes in order to prevent the speed loss.

PS: If I have made a mistake in that code snippet and it would actually all work... I'm an idiot, sorry :P

Why not just use fprintf() with stdin if no filename is provided, or with the appropriate file handle if it is? Alternatively, just printf() and have the user redirect the output if necessary.

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Originally Posted by laserlight

.... stdin ...

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I would make that stdout instead of stdin.

The way I've done this in the past is to open a file (FILE *f = fopen(...)) if available, or set the file-pointer to stdout if there is no file to open.

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Mats

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I would make that stdout instead of stdin.

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Heheh, yeah.

I suppose I could leave it and have the user redirect... but I would prefer the other way (out of simple curiosity at this point).

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The way I've done this in the past is to open a file (FILE *f = fopen(...)) if available, or set the file-pointer to stdout if there is no file to open.

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I'll look into this and see how it goes.

so something like:

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  FILE *outfile;
  if (argc == 2) {
      f = fopen(argv[1], "w");
      // Need error checking here!
  else
      f = stdout;

  ...
  fprintf(f, "%d" ...);
  ...

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Mats

Works like a charm, thanks a bunch!

If you actually want to redirect stdout there are more portable ways to do that than calling dup2().

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freopen(argv[1], "w", stdout);

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