Pike v8.0 release 1738

Method Process.spawn()


Method spawn

Process spawn(string command, void|Stdio.Stream stdin, void|Stdio.Stream stdout, void|Stdio.Stream stderr, )

Description

Spawns a process that executes command as a command shell statement ("/bin/sh -c command" for Unix, "cmd /c  command" for Windows).

Parameter stdin
Parameter stdout
Parameter stderr

Stream objects to use as standard input, standard output and standard error, respectively, for the created process. The corresponding streams for this process are used for those that are left out.

Returns

Returns a Process.Process object for the created process.

See also

system, popen