On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 06:49:05AM -0600, Tom McCafferty wrote:
| I have just ported a ESIX system to Redhat 6.0 with Redhat OSF Motif.  The 
| Motif application trys to start another process using the system() call.  
| For example
| ...
|   stat = system("other_prog &");
| ...
| The calls works fine but I wind up with TWO of the applications running!!?  
| Any ideas?

Only that the other_prog itself forks, maybe? Or that one is left over
from an earlier test.

system() seems to work just fine on Linux for me.
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