From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM
	autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Path: 
 eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!xmission!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.unit0.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Execute an OS command and capture output
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 20:52:48 +0200
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID: <oucplu$fnj$1@gioia.aioe.org>
References: <ouchqn$1vo1$1@gioia.aioe.org> <ouclh7$7l6$1@gioia.aioe.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dDnBrl5M0tnZkgU+KABVxA.user.gioia.aioe.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org
User-Agent: KNode/4.14.10
X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2
Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:48857
Date: 2017-11-13T20:52:48+02:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On 2017-11-13 17:38, Victor Porton wrote:
>> I need a (preferably portable, but only Linux would be well) way to
>> execute an OS command with some input in stdin which I provide and
>> capture the output from stdout.
> 
> It is a vague question because there are numerous methods of how the
> input, output and error pipes are handled. E.g. by 0, 1, 2 tasks.
> 
> Anyway see:
> 
> 1. GNAT's System.OS_Lib.Spawn, System.OS_Lib.Non_Blocking_Spawn.

Where are docs for this? I sought Google but not found.

> 2. A more comfortable method would be to use GTK bindings (GLib actually):
> 
>     http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/gtkada_contributions.htm#10

I don't want my software to depend on GTK as it is Web based.

Is it possible to extract this code and use it separately?

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org