fork / exec / waitpid问题

时间:2012-12-06 01:25:59

标签: c exec fork execvp waitpid

我正在尝试通过检查waitpid()的结果来确定执行是否失败。但是,即使我运行一个我知道失败的命令并将问题写入stderr,下面的检查也从未注册。这段代码可能有什么问题?

感谢您的帮助。

pid_t pid;  // the child process that the execution runs inside of.
int ret;      // exit status of child process.

child = fork();

if (pid == -1)
{
   // issue with forking
}
else if (pid == 0)
{
   execvp(thingToRun, ThingToRunArray); // thingToRun is the program name, ThingToRunArray is
                                        //    programName + input params to it + NULL.

   exit(-1);
}
else // We're in the parent process.
{
   if (waitpid(pid, &ret, 0) == -1)
   {
      // Log an error.
   }

   if (!WIFEXITED(ret)) // If there was an error with the child process.
   {

   }
}

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:5)

如果waitpid发生错误,

waitpid仅返回-1。也就是说,如果你给它一个不正确的pid,或者它被中断,等等。如果孩子的退出状态失败,waitpid将成功(返回pid)并设置ret以反映孩子的状态。

要确定孩子的状态,请使用WIFEXITED(ret)WEXITSTATUS(ret)。例如:

if( waitpid( pid, &ret, 0 ) == -1 ) {
  perror( "waitpid" );
} else if( WIFEXITED( ret ) && WEXITSTATUS( ret ) != 0 ) {
    ; /* The child failed! */
}