Re: [suse-programming-e] A question on passing descriptors between processes (in C)

Praise <praisetazio@tiscalinet.it> writes:

And how could I access them? If I exec a new program it never knows about the former descriptors, even if they remain opened...

In some instances it does. How do think the shell sets STDIN and STDOUT (think pipes and redirection as well as controlling terminal)for programs it launches? Or the consequences (for the subprocess) of calling popen(3).