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Spawn a child process, given a list of arguments
#include <process.h>
int spawnl( int mode,
const char * path,
const char * arg0,
const char * arg1...,
const char * argn,
NULL );
- mode
- How you want to load the child process, and how you want the parent
program to behave after the child program is initiated:
- P_WAIT — load the child program into available
memory, execute it, and make the parent program resume execution after
the child process ends.
- P_NOWAIT — execute the parent program
concurrently with the new child process.
- P_NOWAITO — execute the parent program
concurrently with the new child process.
You can't use
wait()
to obtain the exit code.
- P_OVERLAY — replace the parent program with
the child program in memory and execute the child.
No return is made to the parent program.
This is equivalent to calling the appropriate exec*()
function.
- path
- The full path name of the executable.
- arg0, argn, NULL
- The arguments that you want to pass to the new process.
You must terminate the list with an argument of NULL.
libc
Use the -l c option to
qcc
to link against this library.
This library is usually included automatically.
The spawnl() function creates and executes a new child process,
named in path with a NULL-terminated list of arguments in
arg0 … argn. This function calls
spawnve().
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If the new child process is a shell script, the first line must start with
#!, followed by the path of the program to run
to interpret the script, optionally followed by one argument.
The script must also be marked as executable.
For more information, see
“The first line”
in the Writing Shell Scripts chapter of the
Neutrino User's Guide. |
The spawnl() function isn't a POSIX 1003.1 function,
and isn't guaranteed to behave the same on all operating systems.
It builds an argv[ ] array before calling spawn().
To view the documentation for a function, click its name in this diagram:
Most of the spawn*() functions do a lot of work before a message is sent to
procnto.
Arguments are passed to the child process by supplying one or more
pointers to character strings as arguments.
These character strings are concatenated with spaces inserted to separate the arguments to
form one argument string for the child process.
At least one argument, arg0, must be passed to the child process.
By convention, this first argument is a pointer to the name of the new child process.
The child process inherits the parent's environment.
The environment is the collection of environment variables whose values that have been
defined with the
export
shell command, the
env utility,
or by the successful execution of the
putenv() or
setenv() function.
A program may read these values with the
getenv() function.
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A parent/child relationship doesn't imply that the child process dies when the parent process dies. |
The spawnl() function's return value depends on the mode argument:
mode
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Return value
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P_WAIT
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The exit status of the child process.
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P_NOWAIT
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The process ID of the child process.
To get the exit status for a P_NOWAIT process, you must use the
waitpid() function,
giving it this process ID.
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P_NOWAITO
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The process ID of the child process, or 0 if the process is being started on a remote node.
You can't get the exit status of a P_NOWAITO process. |
If an error occurs, -1 is returned
(errno is set).
- E2BIG
- The number of bytes used by the argument list of the new child process
is greater than ARG_MAX bytes.
- EACCESS
- Search permission is denied for a directory listed in the path prefix
of the new child process or the new child process's file doesn't have the execute bit set.
- EAGAIN
- Insufficient resources available to create the child process.
- EBADF
- An error occurred duplicating open file descriptors to the new process.
- EFAULT
- One of the buffers specified in the function call is invalid.
- ELOOP
- Too many levels of symbolic links or prefixes.
- EMFILE
- Insufficient resources available to load the new executable
image or to remap file descriptors in the child process.
- ENAMETOOLONG
- The length of path exceeds PATH_MAX or a
pathname component is longer than NAME_MAX.
- ENOENT
- The file identified by the path argument is empty,
or one or more components of the pathname of the child process don't exist.
- ENOEXEC
- The child process's file has the correct permissions, but isn't in the correct format for an executable.
- ENOMEM
- Insufficient memory available to create the child process.
- ENOSYS
- The spawnl() function isn't implemented for the filesystem specified in path.
- ENOTDIR
- A component of the path prefix of the child process isn't a directory.
Run myprog as if the user had typed:
myprog ARG1 ARG2
at the command-line:
#include <stddef.h>
#include <process.h>
int exit_val;
…
exit_val = spawnl( P_WAIT, "myprog",
"myprog", "ARG1", "ARG2", NULL );
…
The program is found if myprog is in the current working directory.
QNX 4
Safety: | |
Cancellation point |
Read the Caveats |
Interrupt handler |
No |
Signal handler |
No |
Thread |
Yes |
If mode is P_WAIT, this function is a cancellation point.
execl(),
execle(),
execlp(),
execlpe(),
execv(),
execve(),
execvp(),
execvpe(),
getenv(),
putenv(),
setenv(),
spawn(),
spawnle(),
spawnlp(),
spawnlpe(),
spawnp(),
spawnv(),
spawnve(),
spawnvp(),
spawnvpe(),
wait(),
waitpid()
Processes and Threads
chapter of Getting Started with QNX Neutrino
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