Re: Ada Equivalent of "system()" in C?

[Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>]

>>>>> "David" == David Emery <emery@grebyn.com> writes:

David> In other words, this takes a single string parameter, the
David> command to execute, and returns an int value if the command was
David> succesfully started. Note that the return value is NOT the
David> return value of the command, but rather of the fork() that is
David> used to set up execution of the command.

I think you're wrong; if I remember well, the return value of system()
is a value composed of the exit status of the shell command and the
result of wait() (which is used to wait for child termination), whith
a special case of -127 when the command couldn't be launched due to
the lack of /bin/sh.

  Sam
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