1) you can fork in the program you are launching
2) you can fork in the command you are launching… just like a regular shell
(because that's what system() does) e.g.
MyObject new system: '{ sleep 5; touch /tmp/test.txt; } &'
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Hilaire <hila...@drgeo.eu> wrote:
> So cool.
> For a command taking some time to execute, can it be make non-blocking
> for the image?
>
> For example when using it from a Seaside server where you need to
> execute such a command but you do not want to bock all the Seaside
> sessions.
>
> Thanks
>
> Hilaire
>
> Le 20/06/2016 18:03, Peter Uhnák a écrit :
> > You can use FFI; just create an object with a method…
> >
> > MyObject>>system: command
> > "Perform OS system() call."
> >
> > ^ self ffiCall: #(int system #(char * command)) module: LibC
> >
> >
> > And then you can do something like
> >
> > MyObject new system: 'ln -s /tmp/source /tmp/target'
>
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