At 01:54 PM 7/9/98 -0700, Roy Buzdor wrote:
>Michael P. Smith wrote:
>>
>> Tom Thacker wrote:
>> > My boss has asked me if I can do something simple
>> > as a System Task...
>> > I think I remember in the old classic Intrinsics
>> > manual that you could call CREATEPROCESS with a
>> > parm that would cause the task to be spawned off
>> > independent of the parent task.
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge (and I've done/seen a LOT
>> of CREATEPROCESS code), there is no way to get
>> CREATEPROCESS to create a system/detached process.
>
>Speaking from the classic systems, no there is not.
>There was another "unpublished" intrinsic with a
>different name which would do that.  The name escapes
>me, and the parameter list was not the same.

The procedure was called ADOPT, which was one of over
100 previously undocumented procedures that were in
detailed in the book 'Compass' (no longer in print).


/jf
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