Re: [libmicrohttpd] MHD_create_response_from_fd using a pipe

[Christian Grothoff]

Ah, right, sorry. I somehow read 'fclose' where it said 'pclose'. My
bad.  I believe Evgeny is preparing some new response callbacks for your
case already...

-Christian

On 06/04/2015 12:51 AM, Denis Dowling wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> The manual page for popen is fairly explicit that pclose() must be used to 
> close the FILE returned from popen(). The pclose() call does some extra 
> process cleanup steps. I cannot see another way of doing this except using a 
> hybrid of MHD_create_response_from_callback and MHD_create_reponse_from_fd().
> 
> Regards,
> Denis
> 
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> Subject: Re: [libmicrohttpd] MHD_create_response_from_fd using a pipe
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/03/2015 03:44 AM, Denis Dowling wrote:
>> Then in my code when I want to return data from a process I do
>> something like
>>
>>     FILE *pf = popen(cmd, "r");
>>     int fd = fileno(pf);
>>
>>     response = MHD_create_response_from_callback_fd(-1, 4096,
>> &popen_reader,  pf, &popen_free, fd);
> 
> Just do
> 
> int fd = dup (fileno (pf));
> fclose (pf);
> response = MHD_create_response_from_callback_fd(-1, 4096, &popen_reader,  pf, 
> &popen_free, fd);
> 
> and you can avoid the awkward popen_free().
> 
> Happy hacking!
> 
> -Christian
> 
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