cobrun Command

To run dynamically loadable programs (that is, callable shared objects or .gnt files or .int files) use the command cobrun (or cobrun_t for multi-threaded programs) as follows:

cobrun [switch-param] program-name [program-param]

where:

switch-param

One or more programmable and run-time switches that control events in a program at run time. Your application supplier will tell you which switches to specify.

program-name

The name of a dynamically loadable program.

If you do not specify an explicit filename extension in the cobrun command, and multiple versions exist, then by default:

• The callable shared object version is run in preference to the .gnt file
• The .gnt file is run in preference to the .int file.

If program-name does not contain an explicit path the directories specified by $COBPATH, and in the case of a callable shared object, the directories specified by $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or $LIBPATH are searched.

program-parameters

One or more parameters that are required by the program. Each parameter is a string, separated from adjoining parameters by one or more spaces.

If any of the parameters contain an equal sign, the equal sign is mapped to parentheses as these have a special meaning to UNIX, whereas the equal sign does not. These parameters can be read by the program in a number of ways.