What does winopen(3G) do?

[Wade Olsen]

In article <2238 at speedy.mcnc.org> spl at duck.ncsc.org (Steve Lamont) writes:

>Pardon my puzzlement, but what are the comparative advantages of forking or
>not forking upon winopen()?

Graphics programs that don't fork are a pain because they tie up the shell
from which they were invoked (i.e. you get no shell prompt until the graphics
program exits).  You could just remember to run them in background by appending
and ampersand to the invocation line, but this leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Wade

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Wade Olsen, wade at sgi.com, X1023