Table of Contents

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The function hands the argument to the command interpreter The calling process waits for the shell to finish executing the command, ignoring and and blocking If is a pointer, will return non-zero. Otherwise, returns the termination status of the shell in the format specified by

RETURN VALUES

If a child process cannot be created, or the termination status of the shell cannot be obtained, returns -1 and sets to indicate the error. If execution of the shell fails, returns the termination status for a program that terminates with a call of

SEE ALSO

STANDARDS

The function conforms to and


Table of Contents