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Redirecting Input and Output in C/C++

Hi,

I need to run a program that runs under certain limitations( like
memory and execution time) and also I need to redirect its input and
output streams

I have this code below which limits time and memmory but I dont know
how to fit in the redirection. I know you can use "<" and ">" operators
in shell but how do I do it in C/C++?

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <sys/time.h>

#include <sys/resource.h>

#include <sys/wait.h>

#include <unistd.h>



int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

    struct rlimit lim;

    int status;



    if ( argc < 4 ) {

    fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <time> <memory> <exe>\n",

        argv[0]);

    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

    }



    if (fork() == 0) {

    lim.rlim_cur = lim.rlim_max = atoi(argv[1]);

    setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU, &lim);



    lim.rlim_cur = lim.rlim_max = atoi(argv[2]) * 1024 * 1024;

    setrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, &lim);



    if (execl(argv[3], NULL) == -1)

        fprintf(stderr, "I can't run the program.\n");

    } else {

    wait(&status);



    if (WIFEXITED(status))

                fprintf(stderr, "Program enden successfully with exit code: %d\n",

          WEXITSTATUS(status));

    else if (WIFSIGNALED(status))

                fprintf(stderr, "Program ended with signal #%d\n",

            WTERMSIG(status));

    }



    return EXIT_SUCCESS;

}

TIA,
sklitzz

Yes. That is not as easy as it first looks.

You will need to connect a pipe (see: man 2 pipe).

Or run the program with popen() (see: man 3 popen) which is easier but may not fit the code you posted very well.

Here you can read about pipes in C (PDF: look for paragraph 5.4): http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming....p-ch05-ipc.pdf

Where exactly do you want to redirect the input and output to? You might find the dup2() system call useful (see man dup2). It allows you to redefine what a file descriptor refers to. In you example you might want to:

1. open file descriptors to e.g. the files you want the i/o of the child redirected to,
2. then use them to overwrite STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO and STDERR_FILENO with dup2(),
3. close the file descriptors opened in 1 as they are useless now,
4. and finally call execl().

Does freopen() not do what you want?

i.e.:

Code:

freopen("carbonfiber.out", "w+", stdout);

freopen("carbonfiber.err", "w+", stderr);