Re: Run the process in the background

If you're in Windows and "cmd" expects a list of hosts as arguments, "&" would be treated as a host name since "&" doesn't mean anything to the Windows shell. Understandably, "cmd" can't connect to host "&".

system("start cmd") is Windows's equivalent to unix's system("cmd &").

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Re^2: Run the process in the background by saberworks (Curate) on Aug 31, 2005 at 15:41 UTC
I think when he said "cmd" he meant something like $cmd which contains the command. I don't think this question has anything to do with windows, he probably should have said, `system('my_long_command_here &')` or something.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Run the process in the background by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 31, 2005 at 15:47 UTC
I know. I never assumed he was refering to `cmd.exe`. (I assumed the opposite, since `cmd.exe` doesn't accept host names are arguments.) I described the most likely scenario given the lack of details posted by the OP, and the solution for that problem.	[reply] [d/l] [select]