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system_exec()

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Jul 11, 2003
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Hi all,

I recently noticed, that on my system (Win 98/1st ed., Eu 2.4), after
calling 'system_exec("foo.exe", i)' my interpreted Eu program doesn't
continue with the next statement, but waits, until execution of 'foo.exe'
is finished. For instance try:
   if system_exec("calc", 2) then end if
   puts(1, "Hi there.")
   if getc(0) then end if

This behaviour is very useful in certain situations. Unfortunately, I
noticed it, when I had almost finished writing my own routine with this
functionality. 
At least on Win 98/1st ed., system() behaves differently. It does *not*
wait for the termination of the called program.

Is the behaviour of system()/system_exec() the same on all windows
platforms? How about Linux/FreeBSD? I think this should be clearly
documented.

Best regards,
   Juergen

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