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From: rudrak@saphir.cl.bull.fr (Rudrakshala Purushotham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: How to provide Shell Escape from a C program?
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Date: 19 Nov 90 13:30:36 GMT
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Organization: BULL Les Clayes, FRANCE
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I want to provide shell escape feature from a C program. But I am having 
some problems with the following code:

	shell_escape (command);
	char *command;
	{
		...
		char *args [MAX_ARGS];

		args [0] = "/bin/sh";
		args [1] = "-c";

		for (i = 2; i < MAX_ARGS && (s = strtok (command, " \t")); i++)
			args [i] = strsave (s);
		
		args [i] = NULL;

		if (fork () > 0)	{
			execv ("/bin/sh", args);
			perror ("execv");
			_exit (1);
		}

		wait (&status);
		...

I am using C shell and System V. I tried `/bin/ls -l -R' as input to
shell_escape (), my .login file gets executed here and /bin/ls is executed
(without -l -R) options. 

Can some body help me with this problem? 

Thanks

-- Purushotham 
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