program not executing anything after a call to system()

Question

I am calling a command via system(command) call. But no other code is executed after this system() call.

Why is so? I thought, system() would create a child process

Answer 1

You have to fork(2) to continue executing code.

Answer 2

The system(3) function causes your process to wait for the completion of the child.

Edit 0:

You have to use the classic pair of fork(2) and execve(2) for what you want to do. You might also check whether your C library provides POSIX spawn(3).

Edit 1:

Look into waitpid(2) to keep the parent around.