Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:02:33 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, Matthew Blacklow <matthew.blacklow@ticca.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C clue on FreeBSD Message-ID: <E15vZ6X-000Fvf-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Matthew Blacklow wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> > I am running FreeBSD and am trying to learn C. I have a program at the
> > moment which using C's "system" function launches a FreeBSD application. The
> > problem is that it outputs to the screen all the output of the spawned
> > process. I need to know how to supress the output of this process. I have
> > looked through many C programming books and on the web and cant seem to find
> > what i am looking for.
>
> Try:
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> system("/my/app 2>&1 >/dev/null");
Wrong. Stderr will still end up on his terminal.
system("/my/app >/dev/null 2>&1");
The order is significant :)
> That will redirect all stdout and stderr to /dev/null, thus making your
> program silent.
>
> Joe
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> >
> > All help appreciated
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matthew
> >
> >
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Regards
Cliff
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