Hi,

I have a question, I was using ncurses in my program and made a user interface, that uses the menus. It is fine, but I wanted to execute another program when one item is selected. And after its exiting, I come back to the main one. I think that it can be done via window, but I wanted to separate them. Can you suggest me what to do? As I do it in Ubuntu Linux using fork & execl, that seems everything is mixed with the shell & if I don't do the closing of the objects, the keyboard & terminal attributes are the same as the one for the main, I used the system function, but not very different. I used atexit and when I use (probably) system (stdlib) function it calls the function registered with atexit. Please tell me the solution..

Thanks!

You have seemingly indicated that you know of at least one way that is a solution, what you describe as "closing of the objects". It appears you don't wish to do that. So that leaves me wondering, what types of solutions are acceptable to you?

I can mention that if you examine the man page on FCNTL you can see how to use the FD_CLOEXEC flag and related concepts to cause some file descriptors to automagically close upon exec().