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From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: spawn and wait?
30 Dec 1997 09:28:36 -0800 :
Message-ID: <EM0Hot.2vL.cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
References: <m0xmnJa-00110YC AT malasada DOT lava DOT net>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <9712300646 DOT AA24720 AT modi DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>,
Mumit Khan  <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu> wrote:
>fyi, wait goes with [fork]+exec*, and cwait goes with spawn*.

Actually if you are running a recent coolview, then I believe that Sergey
has made cwait and wait interchangeable.

Judging by the error message in the original mail, Tim was not running a
coolview release.
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