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Top Forums Programming Some questions regarding old if.c Post 302930427 by orbit on Saturday 3rd of January 2015 08:27:54 PM
Old 01-03-2015
Thank you ongoto and thank you achenle for your great explanation Smilie

I worked really hard on understanding the code and I nearly got everything.
This is the last part I do not understand:

Code:
if(eq(a, "{")) { /* execute a command for exit code */
    if(fork()) /*parent*/ wait(&ccode);
    else { /*child*/
        doex(1);
        goto err;
    }
    while((a=nxtarg()) && (!eq(a,"}")));
    return(ccode? 0 : 1);
}

As described in the man-page (if page from Section 1 of the unix-6th manual), if we put the command in brackets "if expr { command } ", we can obtain his exit code.

So we fork the current process, and then wait for our child process to finish? But where is our child process continuing his work? After the fork, we will go into the while-loop and and just skip some arguments and then return with ccode? Where was ccode changed? What is ccode?

Could you please explain me this the given code snippet? And elaborate on ccode?

The man page of wait: wait page from Section 2 of the unix-6th manual
The source code: [C] code - Pastebin.com

Thank you very much Smilie
 

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$u1 = URI::URL->new($str, $base); $u2 = $u1->abs; DESCRIPTION
This module is provided for backwards compatibility with modules that depend on the interface provided by the "URI::URL" class that used to be distributed with the libwww-perl library. The following differences compared to the "URI" class interface exist: o The URI::URL module exports the url() function as an alternate constructor interface. o The constructor takes an optional $base argument. The "URI::URL" class is a subclasses of "URI::WithBase". o The URI::URL->newlocal class method is the same as URI::file->new_abs o URI::URL::strict(1) o $url->print_on method o $url->crack method o $url->full_path; same as ($uri->abs_path || "/") o $url->netloc; same as $uri->authority o $url->epath, $url->equery; same as $uri->path, $uri->query o $url->path and $url->query pass unescaped strings. o $url->path_components; same as $uri->path_segments (if you don't consider path segment parameters). o $url->params and $url->eparams methods. o $url->base method. See URI::WithBase. o $url->abs and $url->rel have an optional $base argument. See URI::WithBase. o $url->frag; same as $uri->fragment o $url->keywords; same as $uri->query_keywords; o $url->localpath with friends map to $uri->file o $url->address and $url->encoded822addr; same as $uri->to for mailto URI. o $url->groupart method for news URI. o $url->article; same as $uri->message SEE ALSO
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