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/**
* \file syscall.C
* Copyright 2002 the LyX Team
* Read the file COPYING
*
* \author Asger Alstrup
*
* Interface cleaned up by
* \author Angus Leeming <a.leeming@ic.ac.uk>
*
* Class Systemcalls uses "system" to launch the child process.
* The user can choose to wait or not wait for the process to complete, but no
* callback is invoked upon completion of the child.
*
* The child process is not killed when the Systemcall instance goes out of
* scope.
*/
#include <config.h>
#ifdef __GNUG__
#pragma implementation
#endif
#include "syscall.h"
#include "os.h"
#if 0
Systemcalls::Systemcalls(Starttype how, string const & what)
{
startscript(how, what);
}
#endif
// Reuse of instance
int Systemcalls::startscript(Starttype how, string const & what)
{
string command = what;
if (how == DontWait) {
if (os::shell() == os::UNIX) {
command += " &";
} else {
command = "start /min/n " + command;
}
}
return ::system(command.c_str());
}