popen() can't tell if cmd fails

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <855 at cmsfl> nigel at cmsfl@labtam.oz (Nigel Harwood) writes:
>I am working on a program where I would like to use
>popen() but can see no way of detecting when the command exits
>with a bad status.

RTFM: pclose() returns the exit status of the command.

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