Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: popen() can't tell if cmd fails
Keywords: popen()
Message-ID: <1990Jul02.122951.7732@virtech.uucp>
Date: 2 Jul 90 12:29:51 GMT
References: <855@cmsfl>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <855@cmsfl> nigel@cmsfl@labtam.oz (Nigel Harwood) writes:
>I am working on a program where I would like to use
>popen() but can see no way of detecting when the command exits
>with a bad status.

RTFM: pclose() returns the exit status of the command.

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