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Re: Parallelling system_exec

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jul 02, 2004
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Elliott Sales de Andrade wrote:

>> From: Andy Serpa
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:17:47 -0700
>>
>> posted by: Andy Serpa <ac at onehorseshy.com>
>>
>> Juergen Luethje wrote:
>>>
>>> As I wrote, it does so on my *Windows* system. (It does so on my PC
>>> under DOS, too). All 4 programs are executed almost simulataneously.
>>> Which Windows version do you use (2000 or XP, I believe)?
>>>
>> I understand that you're using Windows, but you didn't say if you were
>> using the Windows interpreter exw.exe (I am) or ex.exe.  I'm using WinXP
>> Pro, but I don't think it was any different when I had Win98.  The docs
>> seem to indicate that it waits for an exit value from the spawned
>> program...
>>
>
>    This has come up before.
>
> http://www.listfilter.com/cgi-bin/esearch.exu?thread=1&fromMonth=6&fromYear=8&toMonth=8&toYear=8&keywords=%22system_exec()%22

Yes, I vaguely recall now.

> AFAICT, there is no guarantee whether system/system_exec are asynchronous or
> not. It varies between systems, so it would be best if you used
> shellExecute, or whatever...

Yes, I agree. Thanks!

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Regards,
   Juergen