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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: Exec shell command with GNAT
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:34:40 +0000 (UTC)
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* David C. Hoos wrote:
> Here's such a function I've been using for some years:
> It should be portable across compilers and OSs, as long
> as the C-runtime library has the "system" function.

Don't do that. It's not theadsafe. Use GNAT.OS_Lib.Spawn or something similar.