Changeset 1176

Timestamp:

2000-05-19T16:56:01+12:00 (24 years ago)

Author:

sjboddie

Message:

added gsdl_system function for spawning off new processes under windows

Location:

trunk/gsdl/lib

Files:

• gsdltools.cpp (modified) (2 diffs)
• gsdltools.h (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/gsdl/lib/gsdltools.cpp

@@ -28 +28 @@
 /*
    $Log$
+   Revision 1.5  2000/05/19 04:56:01  sjboddie
+   added gsdl_system function for spawning off new processes under windows
+
    Revision 1.4  2000/05/04 05:16:23  sjboddie
    Moved dm_safe from htmlutils to gsdltools. Also made it escape '\'
@@ -67 +70 @@
 }
 
+// gsdl_system spawns a completely separate program (i.e. the calling
+// program continues and terminates normally). Arguments containing special
+// characters (e.g. '&') should be quoted with ""
+
+// on unix systems youcan get the same effext as this function by doing a
+// system call and putting the spawned process in the background
+// (e.g. system (funcname options &);
+
+#if defined (__WIN32__)
+#include <windows.h>
+void gsdl_system (char *cmd, ostream &logout) {
+
+  STARTUPINFO ps = {sizeof(STARTUPINFO), NULL, NULL, NULL,
+                    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
+                    0, 0,
+                    0, 0, NULL,
+                    NULL, NULL, NULL};
+  PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
+  BOOL res = CreateProcess(NULL,
+                           cmd,
+                           NULL,
+                           NULL,
+                           FALSE,
+                           DETACHED_PROCESS,
+                           NULL,
+                           NULL,
+                           &ps,
+                           &pi);
+  if (!res) {
+    logout << "Failed to start " << cmd << " process, error code " << GetLastError();
+  } 
+
+  CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
+  CloseHandle(pi.hThread);
+}
+
+#endif

trunk/gsdl/lib/gsdltools.h

@@ -44 +44 @@
 text_t dm_safe (const text_t &instring);
 
+
+// gsdl_system spawns a completely separate program (i.e. the calling
+// program continues and terminates normally). Arguments containing special
+// characters (e.g. '&') should be quoted with ""
+
+// on unix systems youcan get the same effext as this function by doing a
+// system call and putting the spawned process in the background
+// (e.g. system (funcname options &);
+#if defined (__WIN32__)
+void gsdl_system (char *cmd, ostream &logout);
 #endif
+
+#endif