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Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: system
Message-ID: <2836@lll-winken.llnl.gov>
Date: 21 Jan 88 04:34:07 GMT
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Reply-To: washer@lll-crg.llnl.gov.UUCP (Jim Washer)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Keywords: c program

>>	fflush( stdout );
>>	if ( system( "date" ) != 0 )	/* print a time stamp on stdout */
>>		error( "cannot execute \"date\" command" );
>>	...
>
>System is probably one of the most abused functions in the C
>library.  
>
From: washer@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Jim Washer)
Path: lll-crg.llnl.gov!washer


 system is nice for things like
	system("mkdir xyz" )
    since non-superusers cannot make a directory from a program thru
    standard system call. ( At least I think thats true )

    jim washer
    lll-crg!isaac!washer