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Top Forums Programming Unix Shell background processing Post 302457316 by Mercfh on Monday 27th of September 2010 06:09:09 PM
Old 09-27-2010
EDIT WOOT IT WORKS.
check dis out
Code:
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h> 

using namespace std;

bool ParseArg(char* cmnd, char* cmd[], char input[],bool BG)
{
		
        cout << "myshell> ";
        cin.getline(input,50);
	cmnd = strtok(input, " ");
	int i = 0;

	while(cmnd != NULL)
	{
	    
	    cmd[i] = cmnd;
	    if(strcmp(cmd[i], "&") == 0){
//Debug	    cout << "& found";
	    cmd[i] = NULL;
	    return true;
	}
	    
//Debug	    cout << cmd[i] << " ";
	    i++;
	    cmnd = strtok(NULL, " ");
	}
	return false;
}

void Clean(char* cmd[])
{
//Clean Array
        for(int a=0; a < 40; a++)
        {
             cmd[a] = NULL;
        }
}

void Execute(char* cmd[])
{
    pid_t pid;
    pid = fork();
    switch(pid)
    {
        case -1:  
            cout << "DEBUG:Fork Failure" << endl;
            exit(-1);
        case  0:
            execvp(cmd[0], cmd);
            
            if(execvp(cmd[0], cmd) == -1)
            {
                cout << "Command Not Found" << endl;
                exit(0);
            }
   
        default:  
            wait(NULL);
            cout << "DEBUG:Child Finished" << endl;
    }
    
}

int main()
{
   char* cmnd;
   char* cmd[40];
   char input[50]; 
   bool BG = false;

	

   while(cmd[0] != NULL)
   {
    	Clean(cmd);
   	BG = ParseArg(cmnd, cmd, input, BG);
	cout << BG;
   	if(strcmp(cmd[0], "exit") == 0 || strcmp(cmd[0], "quit") == 0 )
   	{
             break;
   	}
	else
	{
            Execute(cmd);
	}
	
   }

   return 1;

}

It returns a bool & when it finds one, then removes it. I checked with some debug statements but it works and removes the & correctly so it can do the statements normally.

Problem is now......getting background process to run.......which im derping on bigtime

here is a copy of the output, notice the 0 next to DEBUG, and the 1 when & is found. it means the Bool BG is turned on, when it finds an &.

I

myshell> ls -a
. .. a.out fork.c Hello .hi shell shell.c
0DEBUG:Child Finished
myshell> ls -l &
total 36
-rwxr-xr-x 1 matt matt 8435 2010-09-26 20:43 a.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 matt matt 943 2010-09-26 20:44 fork.c
drwxr-xr-x 2 matt matt 4096 2010-09-27 02:13 Hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 matt matt 8292 2010-09-27 18:06 shell
-rw-r--r-- 1 matt matt 1570 2010-09-27 18:06 shell.c
1DEBUG:Child Finished
myshell>

Last edited by Mercfh; 09-28-2010 at 06:57 PM..
 

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CPANPLUS::Shell(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					CPANPLUS::Shell(3)

NAME
CPANPLUS::Shell - base class for CPANPLUS shells SYNOPSIS
use CPANPLUS::Shell; # load the shell indicated by your # config -- defaults to # CPANPLUS::Shell::Default use CPANPLUS::Shell qw[Classic] # load CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic; my $ui = CPANPLUS::Shell->new(); my $name = $ui->which; # Find out what shell you loaded $ui->shell; # run the ui shell DESCRIPTION
This module is the generic loading (and base class) for all "CPANPLUS" shells. Through this module you can load any installed "CPANPLUS" shell. Just about all the functionality is provided by the shell that you have loaded, and not by this class (which merely functions as a generic loading class), so please consult the documentation of your shell of choice. BUG REPORTS
Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org<gt>. AUTHOR
This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. COPYRIGHT
The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001 - 2007, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
CPANPLUS::Shell::Default, CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic, cpanp perl v5.16.3 2013-05-20 CPANPLUS::Shell(3)
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