Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!stephen
From: stephen@ziebmef.uucp (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HELP: MSC system call
Summary: getting return codes
Message-ID: <1989May27.142613.21449@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 27 May 89 18:26:12 GMT
References: <4267@druhi.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: stephen@ziebmef.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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In article <4267@druhi.ATT.COM> deln@druhi.ATT.COM (SloaneN) writes:
$I'm having a problem with the return code from system().  What
$appears to happen is that the return code (as the manual states)
$indicates whether command.com could successfully execute the command
$or not.  How do I get the exit code of the spawned command?

   If you're trying to spawn some other program through a system call that
first invokes COMMAND.COM, you're using the wrong system call.  Don't ask
me what the name of the one you want is, but there should be a call that
directly runs your other program.  If you're running a .COM or an .EXE,
there is no need to go through COMMAND.COM.  Besides which, COMMAND uses
a few K of memory, so if you've only just got enough memory left, this 
might become important.
   Try looking through your C manual for another call (try FORK, it may be
the one) that doesn't bother with COMMAND.COM.


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