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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef ART_RUNTIME_EXEC_UTILS_H_
+#define ART_RUNTIME_EXEC_UTILS_H_
+
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace art {
+
+// Wrapper on fork/execv to run a command in a subprocess.
+// Both of these spawn child processes using the environment as it was set when the single instance
+// of the runtime (Runtime::Current()) was started.  If no instance of the runtime was started, it
+// will use the current environment settings.
+bool Exec(std::vector<std::string>& arg_vector, std::string* error_msg);
+int ExecAndReturnCode(std::vector<std::string>& arg_vector, std::string* error_msg);
+
+}  // namespace art
+
+#endif  // ART_RUNTIME_EXEC_UTILS_H_