[asterisk-dev] Module to Asterisk function Compiler Issue question

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 08/01/2011 09:20 PM, Mike Myhre wrote:
> I chose to use the verbose logging function to generate a message I can
> hook from my res module. Everything is working as expected, except when
> I try to run a shell script using the 'execlp' function. When I do that,
> the shell script runs, but asterisk promptly exits with no messages in
> the log or on the console.

It's doing exactly what the exec() family of functions is supposed to 
do; replace the current executable image in the process with a different 
one and then execute it. If you want to execute the shell script in a 
child process, you have to fork() first... but you'd be better off to 
use ast_safe_system() which handles quite a few other nasty details for 
you as well.

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