/*** *system.c - pass a command line to the shell * * Copyright (c) 1985-1993, Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. * *Purpose: * defines system() - passes a command to the shell * *Revision History: * 12-01-83 RN written * 10-23-86 SKS Fixed use of strtok(), added check for NULL rtn from getenv * 12-18-86 SKS PROTMODE symbol used for dual-modal version * 02-23-86 JCR Put in support for NULL command pointer (MSDOS only) * 04-13-86 JCR Added const to declaration * 06-30-87 JCR Re-wrote system to use spawnvpe, removed XENIX conditional * code, lots of general cleaning up. * 07-01-87 PHG removed P->PROTMODE compile switch hack * 09-22-87 SKS remove extern variable declarations, add ";" to assert()'s * 11-10-87 SKS Removed IBMC20 switch, change PROTMODE to OS2 * 12-11-87 JCR Added "_LOAD_DS" to declaration * 02-22-88 JCR Added cast to get rid of cl const warning * 09-05-88 SKS Treat EACCES the same as ENOENT -- keep trying * 03-08-90 GJF Replaced _LOAD_DS with _CALLTYPE1, added #include * , removed some leftover DOS support and * fixed the copyright. Also, cleaned up the formatting * formatting a bit. * 07-23-90 SBM Compiles cleanly with -W3 (removed unreferenced * variable), removed redundant includes, replaced * by , minor optimizations * 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. * 02-23-93 SKS Remove reference to _osmode and use of "command.com" * *******************************************************************************/ #include #include #include #include #include #include /*** *int system(command) - send the command line to a shell * *Purpose: * Executes a shell and passes the command line to it. * If command is NULL, determine if a command processor exists. * *Entry: * char *command - command to pass to the shell (if NULL, just determine * if command processor exists) * *Exit: * if command != NULL returns status of the shell * if command == NULL returns non-zero if CP exists, zero if CP doesn't exist * *Exceptions: * *******************************************************************************/ int _CALLTYPE1 system ( const char *command ) { int catch; char *argv[4]; argv[0] = getenv("COMSPEC"); if (command == NULL) { return (!_access(argv[0],0)); } assert(*command != '\0'); argv[1] = "/c"; argv[2] = (char *) command; argv[3] = NULL; /* If there is a COMSPEC defined, try spawning the shell */ if (argv[0]) /* Do not try to spawn the null string */ if ((catch = _spawnve(_P_WAIT,argv[0],argv,NULL)) != -1 || (errno != ENOENT && errno != EACCES)) return(catch); /* No COMSPEC so set argv[0] to what COMSPEC should be. */ argv[0] = "cmd.exe"; /* Let the _spawnvpe routine do the path search and spawn. */ return(_spawnvpe(_P_WAIT,argv[0],argv,NULL)); }