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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. | ||
2 | .\" All rights reserved. | ||
3 | .\" | ||
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32 | .\" $OpenBSD: system.3,v 1.14 2016/02/05 18:09:19 espie Exp $ | ||
33 | .\" | ||
34 | .Dd $Mdocdate: February 5 2016 $ | ||
35 | .Dt SYSTEM 3 | ||
36 | .Os | ||
37 | .Sh NAME | ||
38 | .Nm system | ||
39 | .Nd pass a command to the shell | ||
40 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | ||
41 | .In stdlib.h | ||
42 | .Ft int | ||
43 | .Fn system "const char *string" | ||
44 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | ||
45 | The | ||
46 | .Fn system | ||
47 | function hands the argument | ||
48 | .Fa string | ||
49 | to the command interpreter | ||
50 | .Xr sh 1 . | ||
51 | The calling process waits for the shell to finish executing the command, | ||
52 | ignoring | ||
53 | .Dv SIGINT | ||
54 | and | ||
55 | .Dv SIGQUIT , | ||
56 | and blocking | ||
57 | .Dv SIGCHLD . | ||
58 | .Pp | ||
59 | If | ||
60 | .Fa string | ||
61 | is | ||
62 | .Dv NULL , | ||
63 | .Fn system | ||
64 | will return non-zero. | ||
65 | Otherwise, | ||
66 | .Fn system | ||
67 | returns the termination status of the shell in the format specified by | ||
68 | .Xr waitpid 2 . | ||
69 | .Pp | ||
70 | Note that fork handlers established using | ||
71 | .Xr pthread_atfork 3 | ||
72 | are not called when a multithreaded program calls | ||
73 | .Fn system . | ||
74 | .Sh RETURN VALUES | ||
75 | If a child process cannot be created, or the termination status of | ||
76 | the shell cannot be obtained, | ||
77 | .Fn system | ||
78 | returns \-1 and sets | ||
79 | .Va errno | ||
80 | to indicate the error. | ||
81 | If execution of the shell fails, | ||
82 | .Fn system | ||
83 | returns the termination status for a program that terminates with a call of | ||
84 | .Fn exit 127 . | ||
85 | .Sh SEE ALSO | ||
86 | .Xr sh 1 , | ||
87 | .Xr execve 2 , | ||
88 | .Xr waitpid 2 , | ||
89 | .Xr popen 3 | ||
90 | .Sh STANDARDS | ||
91 | The | ||
92 | .Fn system | ||
93 | function conforms to | ||
94 | .St -ansiC | ||
95 | and | ||
96 | .St -p1003.2-92 . | ||
97 | .Sh HISTORY | ||
98 | The | ||
99 | .Fn system | ||
100 | function first appeared in | ||
101 | .At v6 . | ||
102 | .Sh CAVEATS | ||
103 | Never supply the | ||
104 | .Fn system | ||
105 | function with a command containing any part of an unsanitized user-supplied | ||
106 | string. | ||
107 | Shell meta-characters present will be honored by the | ||
108 | .Xr sh 1 | ||
109 | command interpreter. | ||
110 | .Pp | ||
111 | It is often simpler to bypass the shell and run an external command using | ||
112 | .Xr fork 2 , | ||
113 | .Xr execlp 3 , | ||
114 | and | ||
115 | .Xr waitpid 2 | ||
116 | directly instead of having to sanitize a string for shell consumption. | ||