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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: getting the exit value of an exec'd program
Message-ID: <12635@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 16 Aug 90 04:25:11 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.223952.1175@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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in article <1990Aug15.223952.1175@NCoast.ORG>, atul@NCoast.ORG (Atul Parulekar) says:
> May be the answer is in the manual, but I have not been able to find it.
> My problem is that if I run a program using fork and execvp, how do I get
> the exit value of the exec'd program into the main program.

Exec doesn't return a status - it doesn't return at all. Use wait(2) in
the parent program. Its man page describes the union wait status variable
returned by wait(2) and its variants. (Exact return type also varies
between wait() variants and diff. unices.)
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