In C how do you redirect stdin/stdout/stderr to files when making an execvp() or similar call?

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The right way to do it is to replace the file descriptors STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO and STDERR_FILENO with the opened files using dup2(). You should also then close the original files in the child process:

else if (pid == 0)
{
    dup2(fileno(someopenfile), STDIN_FILENO);
    dup2(fileno(someotherfile), STDOUT_FILENO);
    dup2(fileno(somethirdopenfile), STDERR_FILENO);
    fclose(someopenfile);
    fclose(someotheropenfile);
    fclose(somethirdopenfile);
    execvp(args[0], args);
    // handle error ...
}

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