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Article #2519Re: Child processes in Mess-Dos
From: Kevin D. Quitt
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 02:18
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 02:18
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In article <15651@yunexus.YorkU.CA> rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes:
>kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>
>>In article <1990Sep28.234836.17868@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> sarathy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Rajiv Sarathy) writes:
>>>
>>>Others were under the impression that spawn and exec load an additional
>>>copy of COMMAND.COM. I didn't test to see if this is true, but I doubt it.
>
>> If you doubt it, make your comspec=a:\command.com and see how slowly
>>your program comes up. I've just gone through that exercise.
>
>I've done one better: I wrote a little program that spawned a memory
>mapper as its child. The resulting map clearly shows that there is
>*no* copy of command.com loaded by spawn().
>
Sure wish I had your system. When I do that, I see command.com clear
as day.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!srhqla!demott!kdq From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Child processes in Mess-Dos Message-ID: <626@demott.COM> Date: 2 Oct 90 02:18:15 GMT References: <15651@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA Lines: 27