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From: tdesjardins@lion.waterloo.edu (Tim Desjardins)
Subject: Need HELP with fexec and stdout [ REPOST ]
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.042949.7258@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 90 04:29:49 GMT
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  The Aztec fexec function call leads me to believe that the stdout streams
are the same for the calling and the called processes . When I run the attached
program only the output from the calling process is written to the "test_file",
where the called programs output is echoed to the console. Have I read the
manual incorrectly, or am I doing something wrong or is MANX screwed up.

Here are the test programs, thanks in advance for any help.

test.c
#include <stdio.h>
/* test.c fexecs test2.c, all the output should be written to the file
   test_file, but what really happens is that test.c's output is written
   to the test_file and test2.c's output is written to the console.   
*/
main()
{
    FILE *fpo;

    fpo = freopen( "test_file", "a", stdout );

    printf( "begin\n\n" );
    fexecl( "test2", "test2", ( char * ) NULL );
    printf( "\nend\n" );

    fclose( fpo ;)
}

test2.c
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
    printf( "this is a test\n" );
}
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