/* Creation of autonomous subprocesses. Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2008-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible , 2001. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #ifndef _EXECUTE_H #define _EXECUTE_H /* Execute a command, optionally redirecting any of the three standard file descriptors to /dev/null. Return its exit code. If it didn't terminate correctly, exit if exit_on_error is true, otherwise return 127. progname is the name of the program to be executed by the subprocess, used for error messages. prog_path is the file name of the program to be executed by the subprocess. If it contains no slashes, a search is conducted in $PATH. An operating system dependent suffix is added, if necessary. prog_argv is the array of strings that the subprocess shall receive in argv[]. It is a NULL-terminated array. prog_argv[0] should normally be identical to prog_path. If directory is not NULL, the command is executed in that directory. If prog_path is a relative file name, it resolved before changing to that directory. The current directory of the current process remains unchanged. If ignore_sigpipe is true, consider a subprocess termination due to SIGPIPE as equivalent to a success. This is suitable for processes whose only purpose is to write to standard output. If slave_process is true, the child process will be terminated when its creator receives a catchable fatal signal. If termsigp is not NULL, *termsig will be set to the signal that terminated the subprocess (if supported by the platform: not on native Windows platforms), otherwise 0. It is recommended that no signal is blocked or ignored while execute() is called. See spawn-pipe.h for the reason. */ extern int execute (const char *progname, const char *prog_path, const char * const *prog_argv, const char *directory, bool ignore_sigpipe, bool null_stdin, bool null_stdout, bool null_stderr, bool slave_process, bool exit_on_error, int *termsigp); #endif /* _EXECUTE_H */