Re: [Mingw-users] Making system calls to the os (system, exec & fork?)

[Greg C. <chi...@mi...>]

Peter Mcleod wrote:
> 
> I've recently learned that we cannot use fork() on MinGW?

The operating system doesn't provide it.

>  Seeing as system() is actually built from exec & fork -
> how do we go about making cross-platform compatible system
> calls to the OS?  Also, how do we fork() a process? (do we
> have to use multi-threading?)

system() is available--it's required by the C and
C++ standards. If you need something better on
ms windows, look at CreateProcess(). This may help:
  http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec14/art3.htm