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Return Value
If command is NULL and the command interpreter is found, returns a nonzero value. If the command interpreter is not found, returns 0 and sets errno to ENOENT. If command is not NULL, system returns the value that is returned by the command interpreter. It returns the value 0 only if the command interpreter returns the value 0. A return value of – 1 indicates an error, and errno is set to one of the following values:
E2BIG
Argument list (which is system dependent) is too big.
ENOENT
Command interpreter cannot be found.
ENOEXEC
Command-interpreter file has invalid format and is not executable.
ENOMEM
Not enough memory is available to execute command; or available memory has been corrupted; or invalid block exists, indicating that process making call was not allocated properly.
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