freopen: reverting back to original stream

Question

I needed to forward stdout to different files to separate some prints produced and the reverting back to normal stdout.

I used freopen to switch to the

Answer 1

This can be achieved using fileno, dup and dup2 calls. I have tried this on linux not sure whether this will work on mac but I am sure you will get some equivalent functions for your setup. See if this sample code works for you. Sorry for lack of error-handling in the code. :)

    #include <stdio.h>

    main()
    {
        int    fd;
        fpos_t pos;

        printf("stdout, ");

        fflush(stdout);
        fgetpos(stdout, &pos);
        fd = dup(fileno(stdout));
        freopen("stdout.out", "w", stdout);

        f();

        fflush(stdout);
        dup2(fd, fileno(stdout));
        close(fd);
        clearerr(stdout);
        fsetpos(stdout, &pos);        /* for C9X */

        printf("stdout again\n");
    }

    f()
    {
    printf("stdout in f()");
    }

Answer 2

This seems like a roundabout way of solving your problem. Why not just open each file with fopen() and then writing to its FILE * with fputs, fprintf, fwrite etc? No need to redirect stdout.