Re: run a new application

[Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 04:42 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> Michael Torrie writes:
>  > there are routines in glib that should help you:
>
>  > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Spawning-Processes.html
>
>  > This is probably the most portable mechanism for running processes.
>
> But for somebody who doesn't know about system(), the g_spawn*()
> functions probably have too many options to get lost in...
>
> system() is quite portable, too.

Very true.  g_spawn* is overkill for this.  On Unix, system() uses a
shell to run the commandline specified.  I'm not sure the behavior on
Windows, but I imagine it probably uses the windows shell to execute the
command line.

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