On Jun 21, 4:44 pm, howa <howac...@gmail.comwrote:
Currently I have a single threaded server, developed using C, serving
multiple client at the same time, now I want a new feature:
a. I need to execute a particular program at some point, e.g.
email.exe
b. the email.exe might need some time to finish, so it block my main
program
c. I don't need to collect the output from email.exe, just best-effort-
executed is okay
Without changing my program to a multi-threaded program, I am not sure
if it is recommended to execute the email.exe using system + at
command.
I mean if it is scalable and reliable.
I'm not too sure what the question is. If the system supports
it, you can definitely start a program in background using the
system command; something like ``system( "mail &" )'' will work
on all Unix systems I know. (Actually, it won't, because
without any furthre arguments, "mail" is interactive. But if
you give it the name of a file to be sent, and where to send it,
there's no problem.) I can hardly imagine that the situation
would be different with any other OS (but I don't know offhand
how to start a program in background using system under
Windows).
--
James Kanze (GABI Software) email:ja*********@gmail.com
Conseils en informatique orientée objet/
Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung
9 place Sémard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'École, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34