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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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Archie

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