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From: giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere)
Subject: Re: HELP with Independant Children Processes
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.001246.5257@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 91 00:12:46 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.190231.1116@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jdickson@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jeff Dickson) writes:
>	IMHO, System() and Execute() are gross, because of the overhead invol-
>ved. It's not all that difficult to use LoadSeg() and CreateProc(). Besides
>parameters can be passed to the child process via the tc_UserData field in the 
>task control block. 

One thing I'm not sure about, though:  does the parent have to remain
running to eventually do an UnloadSeg() on the child process?  The AmigaDOS
docs aren't too clear on that one... I would like to know.

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Eric Giguere                                       giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA
           Quoth the raven: "Eat my shorts!" --- Poe & Groening