/*** *spawnl.c - spawn a child process * * Copyright (c) 1985-1991, Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. * *Purpose: * defines _spawnl() - spawn a child process * *Revision History: * 04-15-84 DFW Re-do to correspond to similar exec call format * 12-11-87 JCR Added "_LOAD_DS" to declaration * 11-20-89 GJF Fixed copyright, alignment. Added const to arg types * for pathname and arglist. #include-d PROCESS.H and * added ellipsis to match prototype. * 03-08-90 GJF Replaced _LOAD_DS with _CALLTYPE2 and added #include * . * 07-24-90 SBM Removed redundant includes, replaced by * * 09-27-90 GJF New-style function declarator. * 01-17-91 GJF ANSI naming. * 02-14-90 SRW Use NULL instead of _environ to get default. * 07-16-93 SRW ALPHA Merge * *******************************************************************************/ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include /*** *int _spawnl(modeflag, pathname, arglist) - spawn a child process * *Purpose: * Spawns a child process. * formats the parameters and calls spawnve to do the actual work. The * new process will inherit the parent's environment. NOTE - at least * one argument must be present. This argument is always, by convention, * the name of the file being spawned. * *Entry: * int modeflag - defines which mode of spawn (WAIT, NOWAIT, or OVERLAY) * only WAIT and OVERLAY are currently implemented * char *pathname - file to be spawned * char *arglist - list of argument * call as _spawnl(modeflag, path, arg0, arg1, ..., argn, NULL); * *Exit: * returns exit code of child process * returns -1 if fails * *Exceptions: * *******************************************************************************/ int _CALLTYPE2 _spawnl ( int modeflag, const char *pathname, const char *arglist, ... ) { va_list vargs; char * argbuf[64]; char ** argv; int result; assert(pathname != NULL); assert(*pathname != '\0'); assert(arglist != NULL); assert(*arglist != '\0'); va_start(vargs, arglist); argv = _capture_argv(&vargs, arglist, argbuf, 64); va_end(vargs); result = _spawnve(modeflag,pathname,argv,NULL); if (argv && argv != argbuf) free(argv); return result; }