Hello perople,

is it possible to write to the cmd Line from a C/C++ program (i´m afraid no)?
In case yes, how?
Or may be it is possible to create a bash file by a C/C++ program and run it it from there?

The reason i´m asking is, that i want to write to the "export" file in sys/class/gpio from an App. But i can´t because the App is not on root level and i don´t want to be forced to install "stuff" - fu__ing bad for distribution...

So if i could write to the cmd line, i could tell the system to do a chmod operation on the files i need.

best regards...

int argc is the count off cmd line that goes to *argv[] the argument off cmd line

Bash or C you can't really combine the two together in code per sa.

sounds like by what little information given BASH Sctipt maybe a good starting point for you.

but what is your main project idea...?

You can use popen/pclose to interact with a shell.

you'd be using BASH script code to open and close files not C or C++ so no.

them two calls are replaced with this its called the "Pipe" that is used to send information between two programs.

sends all of the information to grep that picks out what I tell it to look for returning just that information and not everything that is running by the use of the Pipe. It does the same function as the two system calls you gave.


When to use Bash

printf() ? or am i missing something ?

What?

He asked for a way to run shell commands from inside C/C++, that's exactly what popen does.

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Yes, popen/pclose it is.

If you want to use c++ stream syntax instead you should look into the pstreams project on sourceforge - does the same thing but with streams instead of popen..

OIC, my mindset was BASHing, missread, read this

This sounds usefull. As i wrote, i want to write to the "export" file in sys/class/gpio from an App. But the export file needs root priviliges.
So if i open a process with popen and do a "su" with it the process should become root. (?)

The complete background:
I have a Banana-Pi with Android 4.2. I can write Apps for it with Qt Creator which can build .apk files out of the box which makes distributing quite simple. But the moment i need to preinstall something to perfrom GPIO access or type something to a terminal on the device all the convinient feeling from distributing .apk file is useless.
So i need a way to make my Qt App to write to this "export" file.

To be honest, i dont see a reason to provide GPIO drivers and block them for non root accesses. That makes it kind of useless if i cant use the drivers from a program...

thanks for the translation, i used to do fork(); execve(); wait();. but then i started using system();. i havent had this need in years though.

Two things:

1) Usually systems like that have a dedicated group for access to gpios and the like, and the default user is already a member of the group, so you shouldn't have to worry about permissions.

2) Usually systems like that have passwordless sudo access for the default user, so you could just stick "sudo" in front of the command to run it. Does the Banana-Pi not do this?

I have tried to put sudo or su in front of the commands, but that doesnt work in my distribution.

What i want do is performing
su [hit ENTER]
echo 101 > /sys/class/gpio/export [hit ENTER]
from C code in order to get the gpio101 folder exported.
I tried that with the "yes" command, but that is not installed on the distribution, i cant accept to be forced to do installations.

It does NOT work, if i open the pipe with a command and try to use "fprintf" on the filepointer with further commands like
fp = popen(su, "r");
if(fp == NULL) close();
fprintf(fp, "s", "echo 101 > /sys/class/gpio/export");
There IS a percentage-sign in front of the s, its just not showing here...

I have also been searching on how to [hit ENTER] in scribt files - didnt help
I have tried
fp = popen("su\n echo 101 > /sys/class/gpio/export\n", "r");
which didnt work

I know, that a SINGLE command is performed when doing for example
fp = popen("echo 101 > /sys/class/gpio/export", "r");
I verified that, by performing
su
cd /sys/class/gpio
chmod 777 export
in a shell before starting the app.
But i must get around using the shell

Note: using popen/system is NOT a secure function. The interaction between environment variables/functions, search lists, file globbing opens all kinds of security issues.