Thread: std::system, are these children?

Originally Posted by m3the01

Could someone point me to the correct documentation?
I attempted waiting on -1, which waits for a child to exit.

But they dont seem to be children.

You're right, they aren't. std::system() launches a shell with the command line you give it. The command line includes '&', which puts the process in the background -- in other words, forks it off and closes its standard descriptors. Then the shell dutifully exits, causing the children to be re-parented all the way back to init. You are not the parent of these processes and have no control over them because you have no way of getting the PID.

You can't use std::system() to achieve what you want. You will need to fork() and then exec().

appreciate the help and the suggestion.

Thanks!

So could u give me a quick code snap of using exec? Never used it,

Thanks

hmm i got execl working but one problem, i now dont have the exit value. Anyway to get the exit value?

Originally Posted by m3the01

hmm i got execl working but one problem, i now dont have the exit value. Anyway to get the exit value?

You have to call wait() on the PID.

yeah found the wexitstatus(status) call,

Thanks again