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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: SKsh weirdness
Message-ID: <5147@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 14 Feb 90 14:30:08 GMT
References: <02152.AA02152@thekeep.UUCP> <13920046@hpfelg.HP.COM>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <13920046@hpfelg.HP.COM> koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) writes:
> Brief note to Commodore, if they're listening:

> I think that we need something like this:

>     result_code = ExecProgram( char *command_line,
>                                struct FileHandle *input_fh,
>                                struct FileHandle *output_fh,
>                                int stack,
>                                int priority,
>                                int background_flag,
>                                whatever_else_is_needed
>                              );

[yes, I know "give" isn't the operative word... but while inventing stuff
 that's not going to happen why not do it right?]

No, don't give them a background flag. that will give them an excuse to
keep the kludge of running the program in the current process. Make it:

	token = Spawn(
		int sigbit,
		char *program,
		char *cmdline,
		BPTR infh,
		BPTR outfh,
		BPTR currentdir,
		ULONG stack,
		int prio);
	Wait(1<<sigbit);
	result = Status(token);

If sigbit is -1, then I'm not going to wait on the program.

> while we're discussing wish lists, can I have a fork() command (the
> real thing, not the Lattice forkv() stuff)

Not under AmigaOS you can't.
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