/***********************************************************************
* Code listing from "Advanced Linux Programming," by CodeSourcery LLC *
* Copyright (C) 2001 by New Riders Publishing *
* See COPYRIGHT for license information. *
***********************************************************************/
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/* Spawn a child process running a new program. PROGRAM is the name
of the program to run; the path will be searched for this program.
ARG_LIST is a NULL-terminated list of character strings to be
passed as the program's argument list. Returns the process id of
the spawned process. */
int spawn (char* program, char** arg_list)
{
pid_t child_pid;
/* Duplicate this process. */
child_pid = fork ();
if (child_pid != 0)
/* This is the parent process. */
return child_pid;
else {
/* Now execute PROGRAM, searching for it in the path. */
execvp (program, arg_list);
/* The execvp function returns only if an error occurs. */
fprintf (stderr, "an error occurred in execvp\n");
abort ();
}
}
int main ()
{
/* The argument list to pass to the "ls" command. */
char* arg_list[] = {
"ls", /* argv[0], the name of the program. */
"-l",
"/",
NULL /* The argument list must end with a NULL. */
};
/* Spawn a child process running the "ls" command. Ignore the
returned child process id. */
spawn ("ls", arg_list);
printf ("done with main program\n");
return 0;
}