child process using execl()

[Nathan Myers]

Alan DuBoff <maestro@SoftOrchestra.com> writes:
> I'm trying to avoid system(), I had some of those in that were
> giving me problems. I'm using the msgctl, msgsnd, msgrcv functions
> for IPC between the parent and child, that seems to work ok...

It's also worth noting that system() is unusable in any program 
that you want to be secure.  In particular, it's more work to make 
it secure than to do something else instead, and even then it's not.

Nathan Myers
ncm@nospam.cantrip.org