Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!orcenl!bengsig
From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: redirect stdin when using execl
Message-ID: <352.nlhp3@oracle.nl>
Date: 8 Jun 89 18:00:55 GMT
References: <414@sc50.UUCP> <3709@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Organization: ORACLE Europe, The Netherlands
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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.  I suppose you did
send a mail to Ron describing how to do it the right way (as I did, got it Ron?)
since you seem to be one of the wizards who knows when to follow up, and when
not to follow up.  BTW, I'm also a wizard (IMHO :-) and I didn't try to post
this followup to alt.flame as your Followup-To: line suggested.  (You don't
get me-ee!)

Maybe you should ask the administrator of the coming monthly posting to add
a few short examples of how to use fork and exec.  It will always be a bit of
a mystery to the beginner why there is not just a single spawn() call.
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