From:	Maxximo <mssmsoft AT my-dejanews DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: I have a question, and need some help...
Date:	Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:05:35 GMT
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> > In standard C, you must:
> > 	-create a new process (son) with fork()
> > 	-in the son code, call the exec..() function
> > 	-in the parent code, call the wait() function
>
> This, of course, is not 'standard C' at all. It's a 'Standard Unix'
> (POSIX) idiom. The definition of standard C (the ANSI/ISO Standard C
> definition) contains not a single one of these functions.
>
> --
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
> Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
>

You are in right! Sorry for my wrong answer but I write C programs in U**x
environment and for me POSIX is a standard that guarantee portability of the
source code. But it is not THE standard! Personally, I hate system()! Sorry
again.

Maxximo

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