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.
A is no problem -- for this, blocking is fine.
B is more of a problem to be sure, but if we're really careful I think we'll be OK. Most of the uses of system for miniparrot are all simple spawns of the C compiler, so there shouldn't be any quoting going on.
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