1*946379e7Schristos /* Creation of autonomous subprocesses. 2*946379e7Schristos Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 3*946379e7Schristos Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001. 4*946379e7Schristos 5*946379e7Schristos This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 6*946379e7Schristos it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 7*946379e7Schristos the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 8*946379e7Schristos any later version. 9*946379e7Schristos 10*946379e7Schristos This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 11*946379e7Schristos but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 12*946379e7Schristos MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 13*946379e7Schristos GNU General Public License for more details. 14*946379e7Schristos 15*946379e7Schristos You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 16*946379e7Schristos along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 17*946379e7Schristos Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ 18*946379e7Schristos 19*946379e7Schristos #ifndef _EXECUTE_H 20*946379e7Schristos #define _EXECUTE_H 21*946379e7Schristos 22*946379e7Schristos #include <stdbool.h> 23*946379e7Schristos 24*946379e7Schristos /* Execute a command, optionally redirecting any of the three standard file 25*946379e7Schristos descriptors to /dev/null. Return its exit code. 26*946379e7Schristos If it didn't terminate correctly, exit if exit_on_error is true, otherwise 27*946379e7Schristos return 127. 28*946379e7Schristos If ignore_sigpipe is true, consider a subprocess termination due to SIGPIPE 29*946379e7Schristos as equivalent to a success. This is suitable for processes whose only 30*946379e7Schristos purpose is to write to standard output. 31*946379e7Schristos If slave_process is true, the child process will be terminated when its 32*946379e7Schristos creator receives a catchable fatal signal. 33*946379e7Schristos It is recommended that no signal is blocked or ignored while execute() 34*946379e7Schristos is called. See pipe.h for the reason. */ 35*946379e7Schristos extern int execute (const char *progname, 36*946379e7Schristos const char *prog_path, char **prog_argv, 37*946379e7Schristos bool ignore_sigpipe, 38*946379e7Schristos bool null_stdin, bool null_stdout, bool null_stderr, 39*946379e7Schristos bool slave_process, bool exit_on_error); 40*946379e7Schristos 41*946379e7Schristos #endif /* _EXECUTE_H */ 42