Calling system processes

George Turczynski george at hls0.hls.oz
Mon Oct 29 10:36:14 AEST 1990


In article <15657 at mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, shepherd at mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Shepherd) writes:
> 
> 	I was wondering if there is a way to call system processes from a 
> C program, and how it would be done (this like 'ls','cd','more')?  I am
> most interest in the ability to change directories though.

Just to quickly answer this last one, though perhaps countless others will also,
use the `chdir()' system call to change directories.

As for the rest, read the manual entries on system(), fork(), execve(), wait()
and so on...


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