Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>At 11:12 AM -0800 3/10/04, Brent \"Dax\" Royal-Gordon wrote:
>>Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>>Which, unfortunately, will end up making things a hassle, since
>>>there's no platform-independent way to spawn a sub-process, dammit.
>>>:(
>>
>>Unixen seem to support system().
>
>D'oh! It's C89 standard. I'm getting stuck in the 80s with the
>multitude of exec variants. Yeah, with that issue taken care of it's
>a lot more doable. Nevermind...
But:
A. system() is blocking.
B. system() takes single string so whatever calls system()
has to be aware of the System's quoting rules.
