Availability:C-language interface function
IOSTREAM* Sopen_pipe(const 
char *command, const char *type)Start a process from command and connect the input or output 
to the returned stream. This wraps the POSIX popen() API. The type 
string starts with r or w and may be followed 
by b to create a binary stream. The default is to 
create a text stream using the platform conventions and locale.