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Subject: Re: Re: [ast-developers] libshell C API to begin subshell?
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>>> Is there any public C API to begin a subshell? I'd like to create a
>>> subshell and run several commands through sh_run() and then let either
>>> end the subshell through a sh_run() executing exit() or by providing
>>> another C API call to end it.
>>>
>>> Irek
>>
>> Not directly, but after calling sh_init(), if you call
>> exitval = sh_trap("(command...)",0)
>> it should run command in a subshell.
>
> That doesn't help in our case because sh_trap() requires that the
> whole command chain must be known and available before calling it. But
> we want to run multiple commands in a subshell and stay in that
> subshell between sh_run() calls. The number and arguments to sh_run()
> may vary depending on the results we get between the calls.
A subshell parses the complete subshell before executing it
so there is not way to do
enter_subshell();
do_command(1);
do_command(2);
exit_subshell();
David Korn
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