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authorP. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>2012-02-09 10:56:43 (EST)
committer P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>2012-02-09 10:56:43 (EST)
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TODO: Copyright information. Including source code and a patch to add files generated by GNU Autoconf is not very pretty... Running 'make dist' in the SVN trunk to generate a source archive might be better.
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+/* xsystem.h - system(3) with error messages
+
+ Carl D. Worth
+
+ Copyright (C) 2001 University of Southern California
+
+ 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 2, 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.
+*/
+
+#ifndef XSYSTEM_H
+#define XSYSTEM_H
+
+/* Like system(3), but with error messages printed if the fork fails
+ or if the child process dies due to an uncaught signal. Also, the
+ return value is a bit simpler:
+
+ -1 if there was any problem
+ Otherwise, the 8-bit return value of the program ala WEXITSTATUS
+ as defined in <sys/wait.h>.
+*/
+int xsystem(const char *argv[]);
+
+#endif
+