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−/* Creation of autonomous subprocesses.
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−   Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2008-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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−   Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001.
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−
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−   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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−   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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−   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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−   (at your option) any later version.
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−
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−   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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−   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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−   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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−   GNU General Public License for more details.
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−
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−   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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−   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
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−
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−#ifndef _EXECUTE_H
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−#define _EXECUTE_H
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−
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−#include <stdbool.h>
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−
+
−/* Execute a command, optionally redirecting any of the three standard file
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−   descriptors to /dev/null.  Return its exit code.
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−   If it didn't terminate correctly, exit if exit_on_error is true, otherwise
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−   return 127.
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−   If ignore_sigpipe is true, consider a subprocess termination due to SIGPIPE
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−   as equivalent to a success.  This is suitable for processes whose only
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−   purpose is to write to standard output.
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−   If slave_process is true, the child process will be terminated when its
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−   creator receives a catchable fatal signal.
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−   If termsigp is not NULL, *termsig will be set to the signal that terminated
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−   the subprocess (if supported by the platform: not on native Windows
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−   platforms), otherwise 0.
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−   It is recommended that no signal is blocked or ignored while execute()
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−   is called.  See pipe.h for the reason.  */
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−extern int execute (const char *progname,
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−                    const char *prog_path, char **prog_argv,
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−                    bool ignore_sigpipe,
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−                    bool null_stdin, bool null_stdout, bool null_stderr,
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−                    bool slave_process, bool exit_on_error,
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−                    int *termsigp);
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−
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−#endif /* _EXECUTE_H */