site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com It appears my man pages are incomplete, e.g. when I type "man system" I get 'no entry'. What's the best way to keep them up to date? David NAME system - pass a command to the shell LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <stdlib.h> int system(const char *string); SEE ALSO sh(1), execve(2), fork(2), waitpid(2), popen(3) _______________________________________________ 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... On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, at 12:56:11 -0400, Ken Wieschhoff <weesh@mindspring.com> wrote: Works for me. Those man pages might be installed by the developer tools installation. If you haven't installed a current dev tools suite, they're probably missing. SYSTEM(3) BSD Library Functions Manual SYSTEM(3) DESCRIPTION The system() function hands the argument string to the command inter- preter sh(1). The calling process waits for the shell to finish execut- ing the command, ignoring SIGINT and SIGQUIT, and blocking SIGCHLD. If string is a NULL pointer, system() will return non-zero if the command interpreter sh(1) is available, and zero if it is not. The system() function returns the exit status of the shell as returned by waitpid(2), or -1 if an error occurred when invoking fork(2) or waitpid(2). A return value of 127 means the execution of the shell failed. STANDARDS The system() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C89'') and is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible. BSD June 4, 1993 BSD This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com