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Re: system() fails on pristine Windows systems
Brian Dessent wrote:
> 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).
Excellent - thanks.
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