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Top Forums Programming invoking an Unix script from a C Program Post 80281 by fdarkangel on Friday 5th of August 2005 05:13:56 AM
Old 08-05-2005
you can use system() or exec/spawn function families. check out the man pages for their details.
 

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spawn.h(3HEAD)							      Headers							    spawn.h(3HEAD)

NAME
spawn.h, spawn - spawn SYNOPSIS
#include <spawn.h> DESCRIPTION
The <spawn.h> header defines the posix_spawnattr_t and posix_spawn_file_actions_t types used in performing spawn operations. The <spawn.h> header defines the flags that can be set in a posix_spawnattr_t object using the posix_spawnattr_setflags() function: POSIX_SPAWN_RESETIDS POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDPARAM POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDULER POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGDEF POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGMASK Inclusion of the <spawn.h> header can make visible symbols defined in the <sched.h>, <signal.h>, and <sys/types.h> headers. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sched.h(3HEAD), semaphore.h(3HEAD), signal.h(3HEAD), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 10 Sep 2004 spawn.h(3HEAD)
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