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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: system
Keywords: fork and wait not for MSDOS
Message-ID: <10202@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 03:01:08 GMT
References: <127@dcrbg1.UUCP> <452@picuxa.UUCP> <3920@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <1317@laidbak.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <1317@laidbak.UUCP>, daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) writes:
> In article <3920@sigi.Colorado.EDU> swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU writes:

> 
> Very basicly, fork() creates a new process and wait() waits for
> its completion. MSDOS does not have the capability of a fork(),
> so no wait() is needed. exec() overlays one process with another,
> which MSDOS can do.
> -- 

MS-DOS can do the same thing (create a new process and wait for it to
finish) -- it's called "spawn()".  Look for it in your favorite manual.





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Ed Nather
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