I have the thought of redirecting output of WIN32 console programs to a pipe or a file long ago, but I don't know to do at all at first, finally I searched through Microsoft MSDN and found a way, the code pasted below was copied from MSDN sample code except some changes in function CreateChildProcess(), where I stressed in the code.
In the demo source, I redirect the stdout of CMD.exe to a pipe and start a thread to read from this pipe, then all that CMD.EXE output was redirected to the pipe where I am reading.
// Set the bInheritHandle flag so pipe handles are inherited.
saAttr.nLength = sizeof(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES);
saAttr.bInheritHandle = TRUE;
saAttr.lpSecurityDescriptor = NULL;
// The steps for redirecting child process's STDOUT:
// 1. Save current STDOUT, to be restored later.
// 2. Create anonymous pipe to be STDOUT for child process.
// 3. Set STDOUT of the parent process to be write handle to
// the pipe, so it is inherited by the child process.
// 4. Create a noninheritable duplicate of the read handle and
// close the inheritable read handle.
// Save the handle to the current STDOUT.
hSaveStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
// Create a pipe for the child process's STDOUT.
if( !CreatePipe( &hChildStdoutRd, &hChildStdoutWr, &saAttr, 0) )
{
TRACE0( _T("Stdout pipe creation failed\n") );
return FALSE;
}
// Set a write handle to the pipe to be STDOUT.
if( !SetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE, hChildStdoutWr) )
{
TRACE0( _T("Redirecting STDOUT failed\n") );
return FALSE;
}
// The steps for redirecting child process's STDIN:
// 1. Save current STDIN, to be restored later.
// 2. Create anonymous pipe to be STDIN for child process.
// 3. Set STDIN of the parent to be the read handle to the
// pipe, so it is inherited by the child process.
// 4. Create a noninheritable duplicate of the write handle,
// and close the inheritable write handle.
// Save the handle to the current STDIN.
hSaveStdin = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
// Create a pipe for the child process's STDIN.
if( !CreatePipe(&hChildStdinRd, &hChildStdinWr, &saAttr, 0) )
{
TRACE0( _T("Stdin pipe creation failed\n") );
return FALSE;
}
// Set a read handle to the pipe to be STDIN.
if( !SetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE, hChildStdinRd) )
{
TRACE0( _T("Redirecting Stdin failed\n") );
return FALSE;
}
// Duplicate the write handle to the pipe so it is not inherited.
fSuccess = DuplicateHandle(GetCurrentProcess(), hChildStdinWr,
GetCurrentProcess(), &hChildStdinWrDup,
0, FALSE, // not inherited
DUPLICATE_SAME_ACCESS );
if( !fSuccess )
{
TRACE0( _T("DuplicateHandle failed\n") );
return FALSE;
}
CloseHandle(hChildStdinWr);
// Set up members of STARTUPINFO structure.
ZeroMemory( &siStartInfo, sizeof(STARTUPINFO) );
siStartInfo.cb = sizeof(STARTUPINFO);
/////////////////////////////////////////
/*
Note here the
dwFlags should be STARTF_USESTDHANDLES, which is descripted in WIN32 API
document, but this was
omitted in MSDN sample
*/
siStartInfo.dwFlags = STARTF_USESTDHANDLES;
siStartInfo.hStdInput = hChildStdinRd;
siStartInfo.hStdOutput = hChildStdoutWr;
siStartInfo.hStdError = hChildStdoutWr;
///////////////////////////////////////////////////
TCHAR shellCmd[_MAX_PATH];
if( !GetEnvironmentVariable(_T("ComSpec"), shellCmd, _MAX_PATH) )
return FALSE;
#ifdef _UNICODE
_tcscat( shellCmd, _T(" /U") );
#else
_tcscat( shellCmd, _T(" /A") );
#endif
// Create the child process.
BOOL ret = CreateProcess( NULL,
shellCmd, // applicatin name
NULL, // process security attributes
NULL, // primary thread security attributes
TRUE, // handles are inherited
DETACHED_PROCESS, // creation flags
NULL, // use parent's environment
NULL, // use parent's current directory
&siStartInfo, // STARTUPINFO pointer
&piProcInfo); // receives PROCESS_INFORMATION
if( ret )
dwProcessId = piProcInfo.dwProcessId;
return ret;
}
在生成子进程之前,父进程首先调用Win32 API SetStdHandle()使子进程、父进程可共用标准输入、标准输出和标准错误句柄。当父进程向子进程发送数据时,用SetStdHandle()将管道的读句柄赋予标准输入句柄;在从子进程接收数据时,则用SetStdHandle()将管道的写句柄赋予标准输出(或标准错误)句柄。然后,父进程可以调用进程创建函数CreateProcess()生成子进程。如果父进程要发送数据到子进程,父进程可调用WriteFile()将数据写入到管道(传递管道写句柄给函数),子进程则调用GetStdHandle()取得管道的读句柄,将该句柄传入ReadFile()后从管道读取数据。