site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Apr 11, 2005, at 14:17, Rick Steele wrote: There are two ways to do it: - the low-level API "exec(3)" will give you several ways to exec a program, with or without both command-line arguments and environment variables - system(3) will take a string that represents a command + arguments, and figure out how to call the appropriate exec system call Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for General Semantics -------- Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it. -------- _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Can anybody point me to docs which explain calling a command line tool from an application an providing it argumetns? The latter has fallen into disrepute due to the potential for security problems, so I would recommend the former, especially if you plan on distribute the software to others. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com