1 /* Creation of autonomous subprocesses. 2 Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2008-2020 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 <https://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 If termsigp is not NULL, *termsig will be set to the signal that terminated 33 the subprocess (if supported by the platform: not on native Windows 34 platforms), otherwise 0. 35 It is recommended that no signal is blocked or ignored while execute() 36 is called. See spawn-pipe.h for the reason. */ 37 extern int execute (const char *progname, 38 const char *prog_path, char **prog_argv, 39 bool ignore_sigpipe, 40 bool null_stdin, bool null_stdout, bool null_stderr, 41 bool slave_process, bool exit_on_error, 42 int *termsigp); 43 44 #endif /* _EXECUTE_H */ 45