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of launching apps inside of another app and feeding input and receiving output in realtime, that works.
there is no fork in windows systems.
popen only allows either read, or write, not both.
what should I do?
(no links to pipe, please. that goes with fork)
>there is no fork in windows systems.
>(no links to pipe, please. that goes with fork)
there are pipes on windows systems...
....
that, is all.
in the console, you'll find that the first task in a pipe won't send it's output to the second task until it is complete.
there is no fork in windows, and pipe() is basically useless without fork.
Save perhaps battling with Cygwin (something I advise avoiding at all costs) or, worse, 'system', there is no portable way of launching another program. Use #ifdefs.
As for bidirectional pipes, you could use sockets. I still recommend sticking with OS-specific things, but sockets (and files) are the only portable IPC mechanism.