Arcane Execution is a library for executing programs without calling shell.

To compile and install Arcane Execution, make sure you have these:

• Tup
• C compiler

Then run this in your shell:

./configure.sh
tup
./install.sh

If you're not the root user, you can install it locally with: PREFIX=$HOME ./install.sh, instead of the third line.

You can also enable some functions that interface with Arcane Enchantment: enchant=use ./configure.sh.

Include the headers:

#include<arc/execute/init.h>
#include<arc/execute/namespace.h> // optional, but you'll need to prefix everything with arcane_

The easiest thing to do is just run a program:

// some code
int status = exec("ls", "-a", "/bin");
// more code here

Sometimes, you want to pass an array instead of an argument list...

int main (int argc, char ** argv) {
    char *args[] = &( argv[1] );
    return execute(args);
}

Or just find out where the program is:

char * path = find("sl");
exec("rm", path);
free(path);

compile with cc code.c -larcane-execution.

LGPL >=3