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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2003-10-15 10:19:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2009-06-23 12:11:03 +0200 |
| commit | 8baec33a32c22b01755b900f30d82e8a885f2cb4 (patch) | |
| tree | 4aa6de655587446fe13fa7983e7631f1d448ea92 /gettext-tools/lib/execute.h | |
| parent | 8ee1e7c35a7586e56f49c09c35247e2bc686bc18 (diff) | |
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Kill subprocesses when the main process exits due to SIGHUP or SIGTERM
or similar.
Diffstat (limited to 'gettext-tools/lib/execute.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | gettext-tools/lib/execute.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gettext-tools/lib/execute.h b/gettext-tools/lib/execute.h index 5915dc4..d0df8e4 100644 --- a/gettext-tools/lib/execute.h +++ b/gettext-tools/lib/execute.h @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* Creation of autonomous subprocesses. - Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -24,10 +24,14 @@ /* Execute a command, optionally redirecting any of the three standard file descriptors to /dev/null. Return its exit code. If it didn't terminate correctly, exit if exit_on_error is true, otherwise - return 127. */ + return 127. + If slave_process is true, the child process will be terminated when its + creator receives a catchable fatal signal. + It is recommended that no signal is blocked or ignored while execute() + is called. See pipe.h for the reason. */ extern int execute (const char *progname, const char *prog_path, char **prog_argv, bool null_stdin, bool null_stdout, bool null_stderr, - bool exit_on_error); + bool slave_process, bool exit_on_error); #endif /* _EXECUTE_H */ |