+
+int execute_command(const char *command, const char *subsystem)
+{
+ int retval;
+ pid_t pid;
+ char arg[PATH_SIZE];
+ char *argv[(PATH_SIZE / 2) + 1];
+ char *pos;
+ int devnull;
+ int i;
+
+ strlcpy(arg, command, sizeof(arg));
+ i = 0;
+ if (strchr(arg, ' ')) {
+ pos = arg;
+ while (pos != NULL) {
+ if (pos[0] == '\'') {
+ /* don't separate if in apostrophes */
+ pos++;
+ argv[i] = strsep(&pos, "\'");
+ while (pos && pos[0] == ' ')
+ pos++;
+ } else {
+ argv[i] = strsep(&pos, " ");
+ }
+ dbg("arg[%i] '%s'", i, argv[i]);
+ i++;
+ }
+ argv[i] = NULL;
+ dbg("execute '%s' with parsed arguments", arg);
+ } else {
+ argv[0] = arg;
+ argv[1] = (char *) subsystem;
+ argv[2] = NULL;
+ dbg("execute '%s' with subsystem '%s' argument", arg, argv[1]);
+ }
+
+ pid = fork();
+ switch (pid) {
+ case 0:
+ /* child */
+ devnull = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
+ if (devnull >= 0) {
+ dup2(devnull, STDIN_FILENO);
+ dup2(devnull, STDOUT_FILENO);
+ dup2(devnull, STDERR_FILENO);
+ close(devnull);
+ }
+ retval = execv(arg, argv);
+ err("exec of child failed");
+ _exit(1);
+ case -1:
+ dbg("fork of child failed");
+ break;
+ return -1;
+ default:
+ waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}