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Re: spawn on IDL virtual machine [message #50592 is a reply to message #50570]

Mon, 09 October 2006 08:21

Allan Whiteford
Messages: 117
Registered: June 2006

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Sverre,

In UNIX, both spawn and call_external work with no problems inside the
VM. To the best of my knowledge there has be no attempt to disable them
like the way execute is disabled so I'd imagine there is no real problem
using them on windows either.

However, it's unlikely that code originally written for UNIX will work
with windows where spawn is concerned. Chances are there were some
assumptions about paths etc. or, worse still, the IDL was spawning a
UNIX command like 'ls' or 'rm'.

Thanks,

Allan

Sverre Solberg wrote:
> Is there a way to run code that contains the "spawn" command by the IDL
> virtual machine? I presume not :-( but would like to ask anyway. This
> is a code originally made for Unix, so it crashes when running the VM
> (with spawn) on Windows, which is not so surprising. But perhaps there
> is a way to test for platform inside the program and modify the call to
> "spawn" accordingly??
>
> Sverre
>

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