Hi, Phil.

-=> Phil Crown spaketh unto All <=-

 PC> If I have to wait() after spawning a P_NOWAIT or P_SESSION program
 PC> (DOS in my case), then that defeats the purpose of running the
 PC> program asynchronously in the first place.  Am I making any sense?

Perfect sense -- it seems like a valid point.

 PC> So, my problem is, what good is it to use spawn*(P_NOWAIT ...) if I
 PC> have to wait() for the return code to avoid filling up memory?

Idea -- start a thread to wait() for the child process to terminate while
your main thread gets on with business.

Andrew.

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