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...at all, my strenghts are Perl -- if anywhere at all. So I would appreciate your advise before I shoot myself in the foot. Thanks for your patience. I have studied the sources and gotten down to sender.c (cvs 1.17), in particular the line where it calls do_open() and I am intending to create do_popen as an alternative to do_open() (in syscall.c). I have seen Kyle's approach of handling the forking directly, and I know I cannot handle that level of complexity. Using something like popen (I am using <http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.3/html_chapter/libc_15.html> as reference) I c...