Re: execve() x system()

From: Slawek (sgpat_private)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 10:56:04 PDT

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Leonardo Chiquitto Filho wrote:

> I've made some tests with execve() and system()
> and now some questions stay open here. I think
> you can help me.
> I wrote a more friendly interface to useradd.
> The problem is, I call 'useradd user' with execve()
> and then getpwname(user). At this point getpwname
> returns me NULL. Trying with system() it works.
> Any idea?

system(3) waits for spawned process to complete, execve(2) does not

use wait(2)


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