Hi Phil,

 PC> Right now, I'm starting a thread with _beginthread(), then wait() for
 PC> the return code from spawn( P_SESSION, ...) which seems to be working
 PC> fine, although I don't think I would notice if it was leaking memory
 PC> or not. :) 

sounds like overkill to me. Mark did point you in the right direction
with 'signal(SIGCLD, handler);'.

 RO> And if you only want to run a DOS-program, why not use 'system'?

 PC> I thought it would be more effecient to use spawn*.

sure, but system *is* available to all OS/2 C-compilers (and is much
easier to use), whereas spawn may not.

cu/2 Roland

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