Re: Running an editor from ANSI C

On 2024-06-08, Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> wrote:

On 08/06/2024 01:32, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

Bug I take it that by shell you mean something which is primarily a
command interpreter for driving an operating system, not an adventure
game engine, or sophsticated programming language run-time.
 

It calls system so that real users can use it for real.

User wants to run their program in the background, and so using
their knowledge of the host's actual shell, does this:

  > system ./simulation --duration 1h &

Now what?

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