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Top Forums Programming When I am writing my own interpreter... Post 302140724 by porter on Monday 15th of October 2007 06:18:53 PM
Old 10-15-2007
job control is internal to the shell, not all shells support job control, for example ksh does, sh doesn't.

If you want job control, manage it yourself, as an internal command, internal list of jobs etc.
 

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SYSTEM(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						 SYSTEM(3)

NAME
system -- pass a command to the shell LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h> int system(const char *string); DESCRIPTION
The system() function hands the argument string to the command interpreter sh(1). The calling process waits for the shell to finish execut- ing the command, ignoring SIGINT and SIGQUIT, and blocking SIGCHLD. If string is a NULL pointer, system() will return non-zero, if the command interpreter is available, or zero if none is available. Other- wise, system() returns the termination status of the shell in the format specified by waitpid(2). RETURN VALUES
If a child process cannot be created, or the termination status of the shell cannot be obtained, system() returns -1 and sets errno to indi- cate the error. If execution of the shell fails, system() returns the termination status for a program that terminates with a call of exit(127). SEE ALSO
sh(1), execve(2), waitpid(2), popen(3), shquote(3) STANDARDS
The system() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89'') and IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2''). CAVEATS
Never supply the system() function with a command containing any part of an unsanitized user-supplied string. Shell meta-characters present will be honored by the sh(1) command interpreter. BSD
August 2, 2007 BSD
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