Re: Executing Outside Programs

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 03/04/00

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On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Pat O'Laughlin wrote:

>I'm having trouble figuring out how to execute outside programs.
>Right now I'm using the following line:
>
>execl("gdb", "gdb", "bin/circle", "-c", "lib/core", "-x",
>".gdb_command", "-batch", ">>", "lib/crash_info");
>
>but it doesn't seem to be working.
>
>Am I doing something wrong?

Try system(), it's better in trivial cases. (And remember the trivial
part.)

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