* Copyright (c) 1988 The Regents of the University of California.
* This code is derived from software written by Ken Arnold and
* published in UNIX Review, Vol. 6, No. 8.
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
* provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
* duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation,
* advertising materials, and other materials related to such
* distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed
* by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the
* University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived
* from this software without specific prior written permission.
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
* WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
#if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
static char sccsid
[] = "@(#)popen.c 5.9 (Berkeley) %G%";
#endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
if (*type
!= 'r' && *type
!= 'w' || type
[1])
if ((fds
= getdtablesize()) <= 0)
if ((pids
= (pid_t
*)malloc((u_int
)(fds
* sizeof(int)))) == NULL
)
bzero((char *)pids
, fds
* sizeof(pid_t
));
execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", program
, NULL
);
/* parent; assume fdopen can't fail... */
iop
= fdopen(pdes
[0], type
);
iop
= fdopen(pdes
[1], type
);
* pclose returns -1 if stream is not associated with a
* `popened' command, if already `pclosed', or waitpid
if (pids
== NULL
|| pids
[fdes
= fileno(iop
)] == 0)
omask
= sigblock(sigmask(SIGINT
)|sigmask(SIGQUIT
)|sigmask(SIGHUP
));
pid
= waitpid(pids
[fdes
], &pstat
, 0);
return(pid
== -1 ? -1 : pstat
.w_status
);