Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!uunet!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: HELP with Independant Children Processes Message-ID: <18637@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 6 Feb 91 22:45:04 GMT References: <1991Feb4.171549.28531@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Feb6.190231.1116@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 22 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. System and Execute overhead aren't that much more; in fact, if you want a CLI process, the overhead is unavoidable. Since System and Execute (under 2.0) are in rom, there's no disk based overhead, like under 1.3. andy -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "God was able to create the world in only seven days because there was no installed base to consider." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.