Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Russell Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk,scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Child exe processes Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:02:23 +0100 Organization: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3817220F.462F8E16@scee.sony.co.uk> References: <7r9fcp$mac5@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <38074ac5.1391490187@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailgate.scee.sony.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: chuka.playstation.co.uk scea.yaroze.freetalk:1479 scee.yaroze.freetalk.english:4981 Steven Osman wrote: > > I'm not sure, but I don't get the impression that the child executes > in a separate thread. > > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:16:29 -0500, "Nathan Miller" > wrote: > > >Has anyone tried running other exe as child threads on the Yaroze. > >Aparently there is support in the libs for this, but I haven't seen it used. > >Does the process return normally, giving control back to the parent process? > >Does the stack get corrupted? Can you give the child process full control > >over the graphics process? Is there any info required to already be set up > >to run the child? Child processes do not run concurrently with the parent - it's just like loading another program in really. I'm sure the stack doesn't get corrupted, and exiting normally returns you to the parent. James -- == James_Russell@scee.sony.co.uk ph: +44 (20) 7447-1626 - fax: 7390 4324 == Tools and Middleware Licensing Manager - Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Other than that, how'd you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?