***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] stop dos window from opening

[Brian Dessent <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Alblas wrote:

> This works fine (thanks), except if 2 commands are placed in one line.
> E.g. set a temp. environment variable, then execute a program:
> set ABC=c:\xyz & foo ifile ofile
> 
> With system() this works fine (except for the annoying pop-up).
> 
> How to handle double commands like this, using CreateProcess?

As I said, system() invokes its argument using the shell (i.e. the value
of the environment variable COMSPEC, normally cmd.exe, with /C) which is
what handles things like redirection and command pipelines.  You have to
do this yourself if you use CreateProcess().

Brian

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