popen with stdin, stdout, and stderr

I’ve look around for an open source implementation of popen() that can handle redirection of stdin, stdout, and stderr of the program executed. I was unable to find one, so I wrote my own.

If you need to fork a helper process and maintain bidirectional communication wtih it, then you can use my popenRWE() (source: popenRWE.c.

Here is an example of how it might be used:

    int pipe[3];
    int pid;
    const char *const args[] = {
            "cat",
            "-n",
            NULL
    };

    pid = popenRWE(pipe, args[0], args);

    // write to pipe[0] - input to cat
    // read from pipe[1] - output from cat
    // read from pipe[2] - errors from cat

    pcloseRWE(pid, pipe);