Here's my C++11 implementation. This class can be used for anything (not just boost) to capture stdout/stderr on a line-by-line basis and calling a user function (could be a lambda) to process it.
Warning: if you redirect stderr and stdout and are using Boost, then redirect stderr first, then stdout. Otherwise, Boost will write loopback the stderr message back to stdout, and you'll get a boost log entry inside another boost log entry.
Usage example
cout << "testing out before 1 2 3 " << endl;
cerr << "testing err before 1 2 3 " << endl;
{
StdErrHandler err([](const char* line){
BOOST_LOG_TRIVIAL(error) << "ERROR:" << strlen(line) << " " << line;
});
StdOutHandler out([](const char* line){
BOOST_LOG_TRIVIAL(info) << "OUT:" << strlen(line) << " " << line;
});
cout << "cout testing 1 2 3 " << endl;
cerr << "cerr testing 1 2 3 " << endl;
}
cout << "testing out after 1 2 3 " << endl;
cerr << "testing err after 1 2 3 " << endl;
Example output
pa-poca$ ./test
testing out before 1 2 3
testing err before 1 2 3
[2014-08-01 12:24:56.468335] [0x000007f89d8990d4] [error] ERROR:19 cerr testing 1 2 3
[2014-08-01 12:24:56.468360] [0x000007f89d8990d4] [info] OUT:19 cout testing 1 2 3
testing out after 1 2 3
testing err after 1 2 3
Code
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
class StdioHandler
{
private:
pid_t pid = 0;
int origfd;
int streamid;
int pipefd[2];
public:
enum class Stream
{
stdout = STDOUT_FILENO,
stderr = STDERR_FILENO
};
StdioHandler(Stream stream, std::function<void(const char*)> callback)
:streamid(static_cast<int>(stream))
{
origfd = dup(streamid);
pipe(pipefd); // create pipe
pid = fork(); //spawn a child process to handle output of pipe
if (pid == 0)
{
char line[256];
FILE* output;
close(pipefd[1]);
output = fdopen(pipefd[0], "r");
if (output)
{
while(fgets(line, sizeof(line), output))
{
int n = strlen(line);
if (n > 0)
if (line[n-1] == '\n') line[n-1] = 0;
callback(line);
}
fclose(output);
}
abort();
} else {
// connect input of pipe to
close(pipefd[0]);
dup2(pipefd[1], streamid);
}
}
~StdioHandler()
{
int status;
usleep(10000);
close(pipefd[1]);
kill(pid,SIGINT);
waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
dup2(origfd, streamid);
}
};
class StdOutHandler : public StdioHandler
{
public:
StdOutHandler(std::function<void(const char*)> callback) :
StdioHandler(Stream::stdout, callback)
{
}
};
class StdErrHandler : public StdioHandler
{
public:
StdErrHandler(std::function<void(const char*)> callback) :
StdioHandler(Stream::stderr, callback)
{
}
};
