Re: top and parted in ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Kolesar wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I need start top and/or parted from ncurses (c code), but i do not how
> :confused:
>
> I'm try as:
> char cmd[50] = "top";
> ....
> pid = fork();
> ....
> execlp("/bin/sh","/bin/sh","-c",cmd,(const char*)0);
> ....

well, ncurses is written in C, but this fragment doesn't seem to have
much to do with ncurses.  What does the overall program do?

There's an example in the sources test/ncurses.c which spawns a subshell
and restores the screen state on return.

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