Re: Is there some way of calling a system command?

[Eryndlia Mavourneen <eryndlia@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 1:02:54 AM UTC-6, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 26.11.13 20:49, adambene...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:54:37 AM UTC-8, tolkamp wrote:
> >
> >> >Thank you for your explanation. Now it works, the extra program is started.
> >> >
> >> >The only disadvantage is that the Ada code below the procedure System_Example is suspended untill the extra started program is terminated. Is there a possibility that the Ada program continues while the extra program runs?
> > You could try putting it in a task.
> 
> I'd also try the "start" command available with Windows(TM) and
> see if it makes the Ada program continue while the "start"-ed
> program runs at the same time. (That is, you'd use "start" like
> "dir", with the to-be-run program among the arguments passed to
> "start".)

"spawn", of course, implies that the new process be a child process of the spawning process.  It also can be desirable to create an independent process, and it sounds as if the Windows "start" command does this, although I don't believe it is so easily done on Linux/POSIX systems.  Of course, it is trivial on VMS.  :-)

-- Eryndlia Mavourneen (KK1T)