'C exec() use a pipe as default input stream
I want to do the following things:
- Child process run a program by exec()
- Parent process read from STDIN and do something to the input
- Pass the input to child process's default input stream.
I know that the child and the parent share the same STDIO, and I'm not familiar with pipe or how to make child read from other pipe.
Here is my code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
int main() {
int fd[2];
pid_t pid = fork();
pipe(fd);
if (!pid) {
dup2(fd[0], STDIN_FILENO);
char arg_pipe_id[10];
sprintf(arg_pipe_id, "<&%d", fd[0]);
close(fd[1]);
// Error here, cannot use <&id or <id in this execl
execl("/bin/bash", "/bin/bash", "-i", arg_pipe_id, NULL);
} else {
char input[2048];
close(fd[0]);
while (fgets(input, 2048, stdin)) {
...
process the input...
...
if (condition) {
write(fd[1], input, strlen(input));
}
}
close(fd[1]);
kill(pid, SIGKILL);
wait(NULL);
}
}
I'd appreciate it if you could help me!
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