popen2

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-10-29, Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>>>>>> "g.franzkowiak" <g.franzkowiak at onlinehome.de> (gf) wrote:
>
>>gf> If starts a process with popen2.popen3('myprogram') and myprogram.exe is
>>gf>  running before, I've a connection to the second process, not to the first.
>>gf> I can find the process by name before I start a process with popen2...,
>>gf> but how bcan I connect t this process with a pipe ?
>
> You have to use a named pipe.

That would require that the application know about the named
pipe and open it.  I don't think there is any way to swap a
pipe in for stdin/stdout once a process is running.

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