On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:44:38PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> > I want a function that shares the majority of the parent's
> > environment and will search for executables, do its business, and then
> > return to the calling program. Anyone know what the name of this beast
> > is?
>
> Never mind. Found it. It's system(3).
You can also use a combination of fork/exec to get what you want if you
don't desire waiting on system to return. (Asynchronous execution.)
Paul Braman
aeon@tampabay.rr.com
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