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From: mhoffman@infocenter.UUCP (Mike Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: redirect stdin when using execl
Message-ID: <2753@infocenter.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 89 13:22:21 GMT
References: <851@pcsbst.UUCP>
Organization: Gould CSD, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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in article <352.nlhp3@oracle.nl>, bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) says:
| In article <3709@tank.uchicago.edu> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes:
|>In article <414@sc50.UUCP>, ron@sc50 ( Ron Winnacott ) writes:
|>) Can anyone tell me how to redirect stdin when I use execl ...
|>) execl("/bin/mail","mail","ron","<","/tmp/tfile",NULL);
|>
|>So help me, if I see even ONE answer to this question posted in
|>comp.unix.WIZARDS, I'll scream!
| Hey come on, there is no need to flame this in this way.  

| Maybe you should ask the administrator of the coming monthly posting to add
| a few short examples of how to use fork and exec.  

Then, in article <851@pcsbst.UUCP>, torsten@pcsbst.UUCP (torsten) says:
| 	I think this should do it:
| 	execl("/bin/sh","sh","/bin/mail ron < /tmp/tfile",NULL);

I think Bjorn may be right. . .let's hope we don't see any more of this :-)
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Michael J. Hoffman      
Manufacturing Engineering 
Encore Computer Corporation
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