Re: binding to C: popen

["jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net>]

Poul-Erik Andreasen wrote:
> This ictually going as it is suppose to, but i would like set in an
> exception if the piping dosn't have succes. Acording to the C manual
> popen returns null if it fails. But how do i test on that in the FILEs type?

The popen man page describes the command as:
FILE *popen(const char *command, const char *mode);

Note that popen returns a file pointer. Upon failure it returns a null
pointer.

It seems that you might be able to test if the return value is null.

Jim Rogers