+/*****************************************************************************
+ * Execute: Spawns a process using execv()
+ *****************************************************************************/
+static void Execute( intf_thread_t *p_this, const char *const *ppsz_args )
+{
+ pid_t pid;
+ switch( pid = fork() )
+ {
+ case 0: /* we're the child */
+ /* We don't want output */
+ freopen( "/dev/null", "w", stdout );
+ freopen( "/dev/null", "w", stderr );
+ execv( ppsz_args[0] , (char *const *)ppsz_args );
+ /* If the file we want to execute doesn't exist we exit() */
+ exit( 1 );
+ break;
+ case -1: /* we're the error */
+ msg_Dbg( p_this, "Couldn't fork() while launching %s",
+ ppsz_args[0] );
+ break;
+ default: /* we're the parent */
+ /* Wait for the child to exit.
+ * We will not deadlock because we ran "/bin/sh &" */
+ while( waitpid( pid, NULL, 0 ) != pid);
+ break;
+ }
+}