Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> popen() is fine if you are doing an exec, want stdio buffering, and only
> want to read or only want to write. (isn't popen a one-way pipe..?).
Whoops, you're right. I had it in my mind it created two pipes, but
it doesn't.
> I'd never use ptys for this, not even sure how you'd attempt that.
My question really was dealing with telnet (though I didn't say it).
I know some programs (notably passwd) don't talk to pipes and want
ptys. I didn't know if telnet was one of them.
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