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James Ackermann
James Ackermann

Reputation: 73

Is it possible to output on multiple terminal windows within a single C program?

Basically what I'd like to do is have two output terminal windows for a single program. One would be displaying a log of actions being taken by the program, and the second would be displaying something like a table of values. All of the output for these terminals would be generated by the program itself. Is this possible to do in C with stdio?

I realise this is probably something more suited for a GUI or ncurses, but I'm still curious as to whether this can be done regardless.

Edit: Should probably also mention I'm doing this on linux (xubuntu specifically).

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1826

Answers (1)

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 11162

Not in any portable way, but on Linux, /dev/pts is a directory containing all of the open ttys, so writing to a few diferent /dev/pts/<n> files would put output on multiple terminals.

Upvotes: 8

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