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There was another "unpublished" intrinsic with a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.

> As for already having 6 background jobs.  Don't worry
> about it.

That would be the best way to do it...it would still
work when they release the next version of MPE, the
one after that, and the one after that...

There is a limit to the number of background jobs (or
at least there used to be), but it is a number that
you can set when you configure the system.

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