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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org (John Meissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Problem with CreateProc & LoadSeg
Message-ID: <488@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 8 May 90 17:59:43 GMT
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Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS), Beaverton, OR
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In article <1860@dialog.sub.org> root@dialog.sub.org (Christian Motz) writes:
>As I said, this is something I cannot do, since  the  programs  to  be
>started are usually standard CLI programs, often to  the  effect  that
>they can't or shouldn't be modified. Arrgh! I want fork()!

Have you checked the manual? Both C compilers have something similar to
fork(). Manx, I believe, has forkexec(), and Lattice has forkl() and forkv().
The Lattice version wouldn't work for BCPL code (C= wouldn't give us any
help on how to setup a BCPL process, and Metacomco wouldn't talk to us), but
if you are fork'ing something you wrote then it's no problem. Of course,
John Toebes may have re-worked the Lattice version to use Execute(), so it
may work generically now.
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