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 3 of the License, or 8 (at your option) 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ 17 18#ifndef _EXECUTE_H 19#define _EXECUTE_H 20 21#include <stdbool.h> 22 23/* Execute a command, optionally redirecting any of the three standard file 24 descriptors to /dev/null. Return its exit code. 25 If it didn't terminate correctly, exit if exit_on_error is true, otherwise 26 return 127. 27 If ignore_sigpipe is true, consider a subprocess termination due to SIGPIPE 28 as equivalent to a success. This is suitable for processes whose only 29 purpose is to write to standard output. 30 If slave_process is true, the child process will be terminated when its 31 creator receives a catchable fatal signal. 32 It is recommended that no signal is blocked or ignored while execute() 33 is called. See pipe.h for the reason. */ 34extern int execute (const char *progname, 35 const char *prog_path, char **prog_argv, 36 bool ignore_sigpipe, 37 bool null_stdin, bool null_stdout, bool null_stderr, 38 bool slave_process, bool exit_on_error); 39 40#endif /* _EXECUTE_H */ 41