Hey there!

    I am new to this forum so bear with me. I am trying to write my own shell for Linux, and so using C I was able to write one which basicly reads in a command with arguments and executes it, however I want to make my shell to automaticlly run processes in the bakground everytime, which should return me to command line everytime I enter a command and not wait for it to be finished. I looked at the different exe() syscalls and didnt see one that will take as an argument and indicator that a particular process should be run in the background. Any pointers here would be helpfull.

Maybe you should use fork() to launch a separate child process, and that child process would then exec() your command.


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Thats the thing I am already using fork() to call a child process to execute my command, but fork() issues a block in which I have to wait until the child is done before control is returned to the parent. I think I need to not include a wait() and trap the signal of the child when its done. Does anyone know how to trap the signal of a terminated child. I am going to palce and example of what I am trying to do. Notice I go back to command prompt after I hit enter and not wait for the grep command to finish executing.

[oci]$ grep back oci.c
[oci]$
[7] 5066
  int i, status, backg, direct;
      backg = 0;
          /*if(!backg)
          backg = 0;
[7] Done grep back oci.c
[oci]$