From 7982c98be4180c17c90e656bbf1f61e94ceaad69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Fleischer <calcurse@cryptocrack.de>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 16:40:54 +0200
Subject: Add shell_exec() function

Can be used to execute an external program in a shell.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <calcurse@cryptocrack.de>
---
 src/utils.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/utils.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)
-- 
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