source: trunk/gsdl/lib/gsdltools.h@ 1176

Last change on this file since 1176 was 1176, checked in by sjboddie, 24 years ago

added gsdl_system function for spawning off new processes under windows

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1/**********************************************************************
2 *
3 * gsdltools.h --
4 * A component of the Greenstone digital library software
5 * from the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the
6 * University of Waikato, New Zealand.
7 *
8 * Copyright (C) 1999 The New Zealand Digital Library Project
9 *
10 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
11 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
12 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
13 * (at your option) any later version.
14 *
15 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
18 * GNU General Public License for more details.
19 *
20 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
22 * Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
23 *
24 * $Id: gsdltools.h 1176 2000-05-19 04:56:01Z sjboddie $
25 *
26 *********************************************************************/
27
28
29#ifndef GSDLTOOLS_H
30#define GSDLTOOLS_H
31
32// don't actually use this but some windows
33// versions of STL complain about use of
34// bool keyword without it
35#include "text_t.h"
36
37// returns true if machine is little endian
38bool littleEndian();
39
40// escapes '\' and '_' characters with '\'
41// note that single '\' characters occurring
42// naturally within text (or filenames!!) will
43// be removed by the dm macro language
44text_t dm_safe (const text_t &instring);
45
46
47// gsdl_system spawns a completely separate program (i.e. the calling
48// program continues and terminates normally). Arguments containing special
49// characters (e.g. '&') should be quoted with ""
50
51// on unix systems youcan get the same effext as this function by doing a
52// system call and putting the spawned process in the background
53// (e.g. system (funcname options &);
54#if defined (__WIN32__)
55void gsdl_system (char *cmd, ostream &logout);
56#endif
57
58#endif
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