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in reply to Re: Problem with 'system' function in Windows Vista
in thread Problem with 'system' function in Windows Vista

system(1, ...) is a Windows extention to create a process that runs asynchronously. It's an alternative to fork+exec. Unlike fork, system(1, ...) is natively supported, so it's much more resilient.