What is a good way to call ‘uname -a’ from a C++ program and send the results to a stream?
I looked at system() and exec(), but they do not seem to give access to the stdout of the call.
Thanks.
-William
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What is a good way to call ‘uname -a’ from a C++ program and send the results to a stream?
I looked at system() and exec(), but they do not seem to give access to the stdout of the call.
Thanks.
-William
Why not just retrieve the strings directly from the struct utsname returned from the uname(2) system call found on most Unix/Unix-like platforms?
No need to fork a “uname -a” process.