pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen

From	John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen
Date	2022-01-01 09:35 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID	<sqp79k$po6$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)

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Suppose I have a program that, in part, runs another program
using FILE *outptr=popen("some command string","r") and then
fread()'s its stdout from outptr. Now, if that other program
is otherpgm which reads input from its stdin, and I also want
that input to come from a file inputfile, then I could easily
just write  FILE *outptr=popen("cat inputfile|otherpgm","r");

But here's the rub: rather than some inputfile on disk, my
program has an internal  unsigned char buffer[9999]  which is
what I want piped to otherpgm, but which I don't want written
to disk first. How can I get buffer piped to otherpgm's stdin
using popen()? Or some other mechanism, as long as I can read
otherpgm's stdout from within my program.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2022-01-01 09:35 +0000
  Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen Mark Bluemel <mark.bluemel@gmail.com> - 2022-01-01 03:22 -0800
    Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-01 11:21 -0300
    Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2022-01-02 09:34 +0000
  Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2022-01-01 19:51 +0000
    Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2022-01-01 21:00 +0000
      Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2022-01-02 09:12 +0000
    Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2022-01-02 09:30 +0000
      Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2022-01-03 00:03 +0000
        Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2022-01-03 08:07 +0000
          Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2022-01-03 22:54 +0100
  Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-01-01 15:00 -0800
    Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2022-01-02 00:01 +0000
  Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2022-01-02 12:54 +0000
    Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2022-01-02 14:54 +0000
      Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2022-01-02 15:37 +0000
      Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2022-01-02 18:00 +0000
        Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2022-01-02 18:03 +0000
    Re: pipe a buffer to a program's stdin using popen John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2022-01-02 17:51 +0000

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