Hello Phil!

 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 program
 PC> asynchronously in the first place.  Am I making any sense? :-)

You can sure do some useful work in your parent process, When it's
time to shut down your program, you should wait for completion of all
other "threads" of execution.

Though spawn* will simplify porting UNIX software (the main design
goal of emx) by replacing fork + exec, you're probably better off
using the OS/2 API (DosExecPgm, DosStartSession) in new programs.

If you still consider using spawn*, you should look up the manual
entries for signal() and kill().

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

cu/2 Roland

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