Re: Invoking shell through a program and working on it interactively

sagar.borikar_at_gmail.com
Date: 04/11/05 

Date: 10 Apr 2005 23:45:38 -0700

Basile Starynkevitch [news] wrote:
> On 2005-04-11, Tom_Punter <sagar.borikar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am facing a problem regarding invoking a shell and working with
it.
> > Following is the scenario.
> [...]
> > Can anybosy suggest me alternate solution?
>
> Directly using the fork(2) execve(2) dup(2) pipe(2) dup2(2) system
> calls (and the SIGCHLD signal).
>
> I suggest reading a good book on "Advanced Unix Programming" (like
> R.Stevens')
>
> If you need pseudo-ttys in your fork()-ed applications, things may
> become a bit more tricky. You might consider using the expect command
> interpreter (from the Tcl world).
>
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