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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:29:52 +0000
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Subject: Re: Stack in djgpp
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> said:
> > > Answer in a nutshell: there *is* no 'spawn' on Unix (including Linux).
> > > spawn and friends are a DOSism.
> > 
> > Ok, so what's the best in this case:
> > 1) Add conditional compilation stuff (makes the code harder to understand)
> > 2) Implement spawn and make it conditional (taked from libc in DOS or the 
> > emulation under Linux).
> 
> You could do that. But I strongly doubt you'ld ever manage to get the
> maintainer of the original Unix version to accept that (s)he has to use a
> DOSism like spawn, instead of the 'native' Unix method of fork/exec. 

I'll try to use system, but the author is interested in the port and won't 
reject a spawn emulation.

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