Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <426E2861.1050203@awcubed.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:39:13 -0400
From: Archie Warnock <warnock AT awcubed DOT com>
Organization: A/WWW Enterprises
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: system() fails on pristine Windows systems
References: <426D5CAB DOT 2070804 AT awcubed DOT com> <d4jrnk$hkk$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <426DB60B DOT 9090004 AT awcubed DOT com> <426DBB5D DOT 5660669D AT dessent DOT net> <426DBDEE DOT 5080905 AT awcubed DOT com> <426DC858 DOT 27564CF8 AT dessent DOT net>
In-Reply-To: <426DC858.27564CF8@dessent.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes

Brian Dessent wrote:
> system() is just a wrapper around spawnvp().  If spawn() isn't what you
> want then neither is system().  spawn() does not necessarily replace the
> current process (_P_OVERLAY), it can also start and optionally wait for
> a subprocess (_P_WAIT, _P_NOWAIT, _P_DETACH).

Excellent - thanks.

-- 
Archie

-- Archie Warnock                       Internet: warnock AT awcubed DOT com
-- A/WWW Enterprises                    http://www.awcubed.com
--       As a matter of fact, I _do_ speak for my employer.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/