From 6e453b12bbe63f7bcec938cae39393532ba44f8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kavishka <kavishka2.colambatantri@live.uwe.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:21:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] - Files used for Task 8;
---
.../message.txt | 1 +
.../task8.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Task 8 - Invoking External Programs Using system() versus execve()/message.txt
create mode 100644 Task 8 - Invoking External Programs Using system() versus execve()/task8.c
diff --git a/Task 8 - Invoking External Programs Using system() versus execve()/message.txt b/Task 8 - Invoking External Programs Using system() versus execve()/message.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e965047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Task 8 - Invoking External Programs Using system() versus execve()/message.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Hello
diff --git a/Task 8 - Invoking External Programs Using system() versus execve()/task8.c b/Task 8 - Invoking External Programs Using system() versus execve()/task8.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9613763
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Task 8 - Invoking External Programs Using system() versus execve()/task8.c
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ char *v[3];
+ char *command;
+ if(argc < 2) {
+ printf("Please type a file name.\n");
+ return 1;
+ }
+ v[0] = "/bin/cat"; v[1] = argv[1]; v[2] = NULL;
+ command = malloc(strlen(v[0]) + strlen(v[1]) + 2);
+ sprintf(command, "%s %s", v[0], v[1]);
+ /*
+ * Use only one of the following
+ * commands in each test.
+ */
+// system(command);
+ execve(v[0], v, NULL);
+ return 0;
+}
--
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