1. Re: system/system_exec problem SOLVED
- Posted by irvm at ellijay.com
Jun 17, 2003
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 04:40 pm, jbrown wrote:
> Ah, well I ran over the man page for system(), and I found out that it is
> a cross between Eu's system() and system_exec()....the libc system() sends
> the string to /bin/sh (POSIX version of command.com) and lets the shell
> do the dirty work, which includes running shell scripts (Unix version of
> batch files), redirection, and in theory even commands builtin to the
> shell. It will also return the exit code of the command it was given, or
> 127 if there was an error.
I added the following code to override the built-in system_exec:
It seems to work just fine. Thanks for the help!
constant STDLIB = open_dll("")
constant SYSTEM_EXEC =
define_c_func(STDLIB,"system",{C_POINTER},C_POINTER)
without warning -- about redefinition of built-in;
global function system_exec(object str)
atom buffer, result
buffer = allocate_string(str)
result = c_func(SYSTEM_EXEC,{buffer})
free(buffer)
return result = 0
end function
Irv
