http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48961
--- Comment #12 from Thomas Henlich <thenlich at users dot sourceforge.net> 2011-05-15 09:26:02 UTC --- (In reply to comment #11) > (In reply to comment #9) > > Thus, I do not see how one can solve this better than currently done. > > We might call system() in a separate thread instead of a separate process > which > is more efficient and would also work on Windows. The drawback is that the calling application would not exit before system() has returned or possibly would abort the running command. So it seems the current implementation is not so bad after all.
