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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.idt.net!nntp.farm.idt.net!hq.idt.net!not-for-mail From: Parthiv Shah <parthiv@hq.idt.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: 1) redirect stdio beck to my c program, 2)how can I ping with alive ? Date: 6 Apr 1997 14:30:40 GMT Organization: IDT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5i8c2g$ijb@nnrp2.farm.idt.net> References: <5i7um2$hcs@beet.tau.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: hq.idt.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961025] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6597 Why use C while perl/expect or any other shell can do the job? man xargs if you would like to do redirection for a shell.. If you are using C than you can always use functions such as system() and work with stdin,stdout and other file manipulation(s)... e.g. call a function for ping, capture stdout into a file.. and do whatever.. Parthiv Avidor Roye <roya@post.tau.ac.il> wrote: <snip> > So i started with that and have a little problems > 1) I need that the message from a ping will be alive or not and not > continueing with all the messages follow, > 2) how can i ping some one from "c" program and redirect the output > back to the program so i could test the results? <snip> -- Parthiv Shah Work: parthiv@corp.idt.net http://www.idt.net Personal: parthiv@netadmin.net http://www.netadmin.net