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We are in the process of converting gnumake version 3.62 from Un*x to
MSDOS. In doing so, we are using gnumake for MSDOS, version 3.58 as a
working example. Well, not exactly working, because this version of gnumake crashes on MSDOS 6.0. Besides that, it was conceived for Microsoft
C version 5 or 6. We don't want to use that compiler, however, so we're
going for gcc.

But...

To execute an MSDOS command from within gnumake requires some kind of
fork. fork(), however, isn't implemented in the MSDOS version of gcc. We
could try to use system(), but we already noticed that starting gcc with a
call to system() from within an application build with gcc crashes the
system.

So...

What we are looking for is an equivalent of spawn(): a function that
starts a new process and then waits for its completion, but without
being erased from memory or being overlayed by the spawned, fork-ed or
exec-ed process. Has anyone encountered such a problem, and how did
(s)he cope with it.

Please, reply by email.

Thanks in advance,
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