Can I open bash from a popen() stream?

Question

According to the man page for popen() I am opening a /bin/sh...Is there a way I can overload this behavior to open a /bin/bash shell and interact with BASH shell scripts? O

Answer 1

Probably the simplest is to have a small sh script which in turn invokes your bash script like so:

#!/bin/sh

exec bash yourscript.sh "$@"

Or you can forgo popen and implement your own popen with fork() and execl().