Archie Warnock wrote: > > You could fork() and exec(), or just call one of the spawn() family of > > functions. This is all open source you know, you could look and see how > > system() is implemented in winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc. > > I'll have to look and see there. The fork()/exec()/spawn() functions > don't quite do what I need, though.
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). Brian -- 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/
