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- Submitted-by: lenox@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Lenox H. Brassell)
-
- In article <16478@cs.utexas.edu>, guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) writes:
- > (Note that the
- > spawn() functions found in Microsoft C for MS-DOS emulate either just
- > exec() or fork()+exec()+wait(), which is much less powerful, but
- > all that MS-DOS can support (last time I looked).)
- >
-
- Using Microsoft C under OS/2, you can pass P_NOWAIT as the first
- argument to the MSC spawn() functions, and the child process will run
- asynchronously. The spawn() functions return the child process's PID
- in this case.
-
- Although MSC is certainly not a UNIX compiler, this "prior art" might
- be a good place to start if POSIX needs a "safe" qfork()+exec() service.
-
-
- --lenox (lenox@media-lab.mit.edu)
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 59
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-