Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 08:52:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Are there any DJGPP examples of spawning child processes?
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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Peter J. Farley III wrote:

> I'm trying to find some simple sample DJGPP code for spawning a child
> process; getting it's status when it's done; transforming SIGQUIT and
> SIG_INT to SIG_IGN while the child is running; and resetting SIGQUIT
> and SIG_INT after the child returns.  If anyone can point me at any
> such code examples (book, web, ftp, etc. references welcome).

Try any port of a GNU program that can launch other programs.  GNU
Make and Emacs are two examples that come to mind.  For GNU Make, look
in the file job.c; for Emacs, look in the file sysdep.c.  I think GNU
Find (from Findutils) also catches signals while the child program
runs.