popen simultaneous read and write [duplicate]

Answer 1

In one of netresolve backends I'm talking to a script and therefore I need to write to its stdin and read from its stdout. The following function executes a command with stdin and stdout redirected to a pipe. You can use it and adapt it to your liking.

static bool
start_subprocess(char *const command[], int *pid, int *infd, int *outfd)
{
    int p1[2], p2[2];

    if (!pid || !infd || !outfd)
        return false;

    if (pipe(p1) == -1)
        goto err_pipe1;
    if (pipe(p2) == -1)
        goto err_pipe2;
    if ((*pid = fork()) == -1)
        goto err_fork;

    if (*pid) {
        /* Parent process. */
        *infd = p1[1];
        *outfd = p2[0];
        close(p1[0]);
        close(p2[1]);
        return true;
    } else {
        /* Child process. */
        dup2(p1[0], 0);
        dup2(p2[1], 1);
        close(p1[0]);
        close(p1[1]);
        close(p2[0]);
        close(p2[1]);
        execvp(*command, command);
        /* Error occured. */
        fprintf(stderr, "error running %s: %s", *command, strerror(errno));
        abort();
    }

err_fork:
    close(p2[1]);
    close(p2[0]);
err_pipe2:
    close(p1[1]);
    close(p1[0]);
err_pipe1:
    return false;
}

https://github.com/crossdistro/netresolve/blob/master/backends/exec.c#L46

(I used the same code in Can popen() make bidirectional pipes like pipe() + fork()?)