execprocess#

Functions

int exec_process(const char *pathname, char *const argv[], char *const env[])#

Execute pathname in a new process.

Arguments:

pathname: path to executable.
argv: arguments passed to the process. It is a NULL-terminated array of pointers to NUL-terminated strings. The first argument should point to pathname.
env: environment variables passed to the process. It is a NULL-terminated array of pointers to NUL-terminated strings.

char **get_environment(void)#

Returns a pointer to the environment of the current process.

The returned value is a pointer to a NULL-terminated array of pointers to NUL-terminated strings, where each string is of the form “name=value”.

The returned environment must be free’ed with strlist_free().

Returns NULL on error.

char **get_envitem(char **env, const char *name)#: Returns a pointer to the name=value item in environment env corresponding to environment variable name, or NULL if name isn’t in the environment.

char *get_envvar(char **env, const char *name)#: Returns value of environment variable name or NULL if it doesn’t exists.

char **set_envitem(char **env, const char *item)#

Sets environment variable NAME to item, where item is a NAME=VALUE pair. If it exists from before, it is overwritten. Only call this on an malloc’ed environment, like the one returned by get_environment().

If env is NULL, a new environment is allocated.

Returns a pointer to the (possible reallocated) environment or NULL on error.

char **set_envvar(char **env, const char *name, const char *value)#

Sets environment variable name to value. If it exists from before, it is overwritten. Only call this on an malloc’ed environment, like the one returned by get_environment().

If env is NULL, a new environment is allocated;

Returns a pointer to the (possible reallocated) environment or NULL on error.

char **strlist_copy(char **strlist)#: Returns a copy of strlist or NULL on error.

char **strlist_add(char **strlist, const char *s)#

Appends s to string list strlist and return a pointer to the reallocated list. If strlist is NULL, a new string list is created.

Returns NULL on error.

void strlist_free(char **strlist)#: Frees a string list.