Shells - non-blocking?

[Dar Scott]

On Aug 13, 2006, at 10:23 AM, David Bovill wrote:

> And what would be the relation betwenn writing to that process and the
> params you would send on the command line?

You can use a full command line when you open a process.  You can  
open it for neither and wait for it to be missing from the open  
processes.

If you would rather use shell on Windows, there is also "start".   
That might do what you want.

Dar Scott