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Re: Parallelling system_exec

• Posted by "Elliott S. de Andrade" <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> Jun 29, 2004
• 428 views

>From: Andy Serpa <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
>Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
>To: EUforum at topica.com
>Subject: Re: Parallelling system_exec
>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

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...

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