/* xsystem.c - system(3) with error messages Carl D. Worth Copyright (C) 2001 University of Southern California This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. */ #include #include #include #include "xsystem.h" #include "libbb/libbb.h" /* Like system(3), but with error messages printed if the fork fails or if the child process dies due to an uncaught signal. Also, the return value is a bit simpler: -1 if there was any problem Otherwise, the 8-bit return value of the program ala WEXITSTATUS as defined in . */ int xsystem(const char *argv[]) { int status; pid_t pid; pid = vfork(); switch (pid) { case -1: opkg_perror(ERROR, "%s: vfork", argv[0]); return -1; case 0: /* child */ execvp(argv[0], (char *const *)argv); _exit(-1); default: /* parent */ break; } if (waitpid(pid, &status, 0) == -1) { opkg_perror(ERROR, "%s: waitpid", argv[0]); return -1; } if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) { opkg_msg(ERROR, "%s: Child killed by signal %d.\n", argv[0], WTERMSIG(status)); return -1; } if (!WIFEXITED(status)) { /* shouldn't happen */ opkg_msg(ERROR, "%s: Your system is broken: got status %d " "from waitpid.\n", argv[0], status); return -1; } return WEXITSTATUS(status); }