Multitasking Shell Command

PyRoe · Post by **PyRoe** » Jul 24, 2011 5:20

Ok this is a little weird, but i have a desire to create a program which will call a second program, but not interrupt the execution of the first program until the second one is complete... I know this is weird but it will be handy for it.... any ideas how to do this?

TJF · Post by **TJF** » Jul 24, 2011 5:42

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#IFNDEF __FB_UNIX__
SHELL "start second_prg.exe"
#ELSE
SHELL "second_prg &"
#ENDIF

pestery · Post by **pestery** » Jul 24, 2011 7:45

You could create a new thread and use Chain or Exec from within the new thread.

AnotherLife · Post by **AnotherLife** » Sep 04, 2011 5:47

I propose this solution :

http://msrtech.blogspot.com/2009/01/cre ... ocess.html

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// Create the process
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
CreateProcess(..., &pi);

// Wait for it to finish
WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE);

Above statement keeps current process in suspension till CreateProcess binary is done with its task.