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| author | Lukas Fleischer <calcurse@cryptocrack.de> | 2011-07-01 16:40:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Lukas Fleischer <calcurse@cryptocrack.de> | 2011-07-02 10:15:36 +0200 |
| commit | 7982c98be4180c17c90e656bbf1f61e94ceaad69 (patch) | |
| tree | bcf0450fd32397f6d9393df7684f73e171d25e48 | |
| parent | 7e61b3de06a190aa9e84b3fc0070ee27e57770d1 (diff) | |
| download | calcurse-7982c98be4180c17c90e656bbf1f61e94ceaad69.tar.gz calcurse-7982c98be4180c17c90e656bbf1f61e94ceaad69.zip | |
Add shell_exec() function
Can be used to execute an external program in a shell.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <calcurse@cryptocrack.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | src/calcurse.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/utils.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/calcurse.h b/src/calcurse.h index dec14c4..14becbd 100644 --- a/src/calcurse.h +++ b/src/calcurse.h @@ -880,6 +880,7 @@ void str_toupper (char *); void file_close (FILE *, const char *); void psleep (unsigned); int fork_exec (int *, int *, const char *, char *const *); +int shell_exec (int *, int *, char *); int child_wait (int *, int *, int); /* vars.c */ diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c index 75e702b..5f19db0 100644 --- a/src/utils.c +++ b/src/utils.c @@ -791,6 +791,14 @@ fork_exec (int *pfdin, int *pfdout, const char *path, char *const *arg) return pid; } +/* Execute an external program in a shell. */ +int +shell_exec (int *pfdin, int *pfdout, char *cmd) +{ + char *arg[] = { "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd, NULL }; + return fork_exec (pfdin, pfdout, *arg, arg); +} + /* Wait for a child process to terminate. */ int child_wait (int *pfdin, int *pfdout, int pid) |