Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!csusac!unify!openlook!openlook-request From: uunet!slcpi!fis1026!fgreco@Unify.Com Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Questions about the XView notifier Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 20:18:08 GMT Sender: news@Unify.Com Lines: 16 > In article fgreco@fis1026.govt.shearson.com (Frank Greco) writes: > > There is not a substitute for system(). > > There is a fork-type of pgm in the XVPM, but a lot of app pgmrs need > > the shell's help to run a pgm. > > Hmm, as I think on it, there *must* be something in the library somewhere > for this - after all a TTYSW does it! [Still, is using an undocumented > interface kosher?] I wouldn't think a TTYSW does it. I would think that it just fork/exec's a shell and attaches the appropriate fd's to the pseudo tty of the TTYSW. Why would it want to call system()? Frank G.