starting independent processes

[captaindet]

hm, seems like i am getting somewhere using

std.process.system( "start " ~ mycommandlinestring );

now i have to factor in the issues with the proper quotation of the arguments...



On 2011-07-12 21:19, captaindet wrote:
> i am just in the middle of my first little d project. i came to the
> point where i have to start new processes command line style incl
> arguments. they need to run independent of the main program, i.e.,
> several such processes need to be started and must run parallel while
> the main program continues and maybe even finishes.
>
> in c/c++ (M$ VS2005, e.g.) this can be achieved using one of the
> spawnXXX functions with mode=P_DISPATCH (value 4).
>
> phobos has a similar function std.process.spawnvp, however,
> P_DISPATCH doesn't seem to be supported (not defined and when using
> '4L' anyway resulting in a crash).
>
> so the main question is: what do i do instead? (win32 system)
>
>
> also i noticed that std.process.spawnvp with mode=P_NOWAIT seems to
> be broken. it behaves as if mode=P_WAIT: the parent thread is halted
> until child thread has finished. if this at least would be
> multithreaded i might be able to live with it (and let the parent
> process silently wait in the background even though it is done).
>
> thx, det