how to read from stdout in C

Question

I need to write a C program (myprogram) which checks output of other programs. It should basically work like this:

./otherprogram | ./myprogram

But I could not find how to read line-by-line from stdout (or the pipe), and then write all this to stdout.

Answer 1

One program's stdout becomes the next program's stdin. Just read from stdin and you will be fine.

The shell, when it runs myprogram, will connect everything for you.

BTW, here is the bash code responsible: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/execute_cmd.c

Look for execute_pipeline. No, the code is not easy to follow, but it fully explains it.