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From: "Dykstra, Sean" <Sean_Dykstra AT maxtor DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Various spawns
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:59:19 -0600
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Hello all!

I have discovered a slightly bizarre behaivoir in the spawn/system commands,
when smartdrv is NOT loaded into memory.

If I boot to a DOS system without smartdrv loaded, any spawn command I issue
with parameters is very slow.

However, if I do not pass any parameters, I get to the DOS prompt very
quickly and then can issue DOS commands very quickly.

Examples:
//FAST code
system ("");

//SLOW code
system ("dir");  

I get the same response using spawnlp and spawnvp.  Any thoughts?