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Message-Id: <199902281849.SAA06162@out1.ibm.net>
From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:49:30 -0500
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Subject: Re: inetutils
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References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 990228144332 DOT 5950e-100000 AT is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Feb 28, 99 02:43:58 pm
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>  pid = spwan(P_NOWAIT, "start", "/m", path, NULL);

This won't work because P_NOWAIT always causes an error. Try this 
instead:
pid = spawnl (P_WAIT, "start.exe", "start.exe", "/m", path, NULL);

and then add "/w" if start.exe should wait for the program to finish 
before exiting.

Mark

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Mark Elbrecht
snowball3 AT usa DOT net http://members.xoom.com/snowball3/

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