Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1999/04/16/08:32:42
Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com> wrote:
> Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> >
> > Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> said:
> > > > > Answer in a nutshell: there *is* no 'spawn' on Unix (including Linux).
> > > > > spawn and friends are a DOSism.
> > > >
> > > > Ok, so what's the best in this case:
> > > > 1) Add conditional compilation stuff (makes the code harder to understand)
> > > > 2) Implement spawn and make it conditional (taked from libc in DOS or the
> > > > emulation under Linux).
> > >
> > > You could do that. But I strongly doubt you'ld ever manage to get the
> > > maintainer of the original Unix version to accept that (s)he has to use a
> > > DOSism like spawn, instead of the 'native' Unix method of fork/exec.
> >
> > I'll try to use system, but the author is interested in the port and won't
> > reject a spawn emulation.
>
> Something else you might consider is `pexecute' from GNU's libiberty.
> It already works correctly on a wide range of OS's.
Ok, I'll check it to see if it isn't too much problems.
> If the copying policy will permit the inclusion of GPL (not LGPL) code,
> that is.
The package is GPL.
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