From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bogdan Cristea Subject: Re: unnamed pipe and independent process Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:27:38 +0200 Message-ID: <201012200827.38797.cristeab@gmail.com> References: <201012200758.32380.cristeab@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:organization:to:subject :date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Rp8dM6ctInw9q0ud0Oj1+F4j7s4uxfRAlOfBIsCr0tM=; b=WgoYrfThraqW1nfjdoZVe47Kvq40rB65ZaNtHnNhGb8tanB2KOOA+MX51GByoxT0Ft arsLpDYDP0wJrGctv8abXxaC0L6FH8hwGC44mIgbzazDnIdGC+6coDoJqQigv3bwqr/m o2hNJUmhkGRQVnif1FNg0KuXiJBHawCI5kvWc= In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: ratheesh k , linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org On Monday 20 December 2010 08:21:28 you wrote: > Could i use popen in some way ? somebody told me there is way around . It is possible to pass a file descriptor through UNIX sockets between unrelated processes. You could pass using this approach the file descriptors returned by popen.