Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <426DC858.27564CF8@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:49:28 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: system() fails on pristine Windows systems References: <426D5CAB.2070804@awcubed.com> <426DB60B.9090004@awcubed.com> <426DBB5D.5660669D@dessent.net> <426DBDEE.5080905@awcubed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Archie Warnock wrote: > > You could fork() and exec(), or just call one of the spawn() family of > > functions. This is all open source you know, you could look and see how > > system() is implemented in winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc. > > I'll have to look and see there. The fork()/exec()/spawn() functions > don't quite do what I need, though. 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). Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/