1 /* Creation of autonomous subprocesses. 2 Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 3 Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001. 4 5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 8 any later version. 9 10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 13 GNU General Public License for more details. 14 15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 16 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 17 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ 18 19 #ifndef _EXECUTE_H 20 #define _EXECUTE_H 21 22 #include <stdbool.h> 23 24 /* Execute a command, optionally redirecting any of the three standard file 25 descriptors to /dev/null. Return its exit code. 26 If it didn't terminate correctly, exit if exit_on_error is true, otherwise 27 return 127. 28 If ignore_sigpipe is true, consider a subprocess termination due to SIGPIPE 29 as equivalent to a success. This is suitable for processes whose only 30 purpose is to write to standard output. 31 If slave_process is true, the child process will be terminated when its 32 creator receives a catchable fatal signal. 33 It is recommended that no signal is blocked or ignored while execute() 34 is called. See pipe.h for the reason. */ 35 extern int execute (const char *progname, 36 const char *prog_path, char **prog_argv, 37 bool ignore_sigpipe, 38 bool null_stdin, bool null_stdout, bool null_stderr, 39 bool slave_process, bool exit_on_error); 40 41 #endif /* _EXECUTE_H */ 42