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Re: Parallelling system_exec

• Posted by Andy Serpa <ac at onehorseshy.com> Jun 28, 2004
• 437 views

Juergen Luethje wrote:
> Why not use system()? It also calls the child processes asynchronously,
> or am I missing something? The following code works fine on my system
> (Windows 98):
> 
> <font color="#330033"></font>
> <font color="#FF00FF">system</font><font color="#330033">(</font><font
> color="#00A033">"explorer.exe."</font><font color="#330033">, 2)</font>
> <font color="#FF00FF">system</font><font color="#330033">(</font><font
> color="#00A033">"calc.exe."</font><font color="#330033">, 2)</font>
> <font color="#FF00FF">system</font><font color="#330033">(</font><font
> color="#00A033">"notepad.exe."</font><font color="#330033">, 2)</font>
> <font color="#FF00FF">system</font><font color="#330033">(</font><font
> color="#00A033">"charmap.exe."</font><font color="#330033">, 2)</font>
> <font color="#330033"></font>
> 

system() does not work asynchronously, at least on my system (with the Windows
interpreter -- maybe under DOS?).

e.g.

system("notepad.exe",2)

? 99 -- code not executed until notepad.exe is terminated