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From: Mark Grosberg <mark@nolab.conman.org>
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On 28 Apr 2003, [iso-8859-1] Måns Rullgård wrote:

> > But yeah, basically, something similar to NT's CreateProcess(). For the
> > cases where the one-step process creation is sufficient.
>
> Is that the call that takes dozens of parameters?  Copying :-) that
> is, IMHO, straight against the UNIX philosophy.

Well, it does take quite a few parameters. I wasn't thinking that it be
nearly that messy. See my first message for my original proposal.

L8r,
Mark G.