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- /* rcmd.h --- interface to executing commands on remote hosts
- Karl Fogel <kfogel@cyclic.com> --- November 1995 */
-
- /* Run the command CMD on the host *AHOST, and return a file descriptor for
- a bidirectional stream socket connected to the command's standard input
- and output.
-
- rcmd looks up *AHOST using gethostbyname, and sets *AHOST to the host's
- canonical name. If *AHOST is not found, rcmd returns -1.
-
- rcmd connects to the remote host at TCP port INPORT. This should
- probably be the "shell" service, port 514.
-
- LOCUSER is the name of the user on the local machine, and REMUSER is
- the name of the user on the remote machine; the remote machine uses this,
- along with the source address of the TCP connection, to authenticate
- the connection.
-
- CMD is the command to execute. The remote host will tokenize it any way
- it damn well pleases. Welcome to Unix.
-
- FD2P is a feature we don't support, but there's no point in making mindless
- deviations from the interface. Callers should always pass this argument
- as zero. */
- extern int rcmd (const char **AHOST,
- unsigned short INPORT,
- char *LOCUSER,
- char *REMUSER,
- char *CMD,
- int *fd2p);
-