4 * Copyright 2002 the LyX Team
5 * Read the file COPYING
7 * \author Asger Alstrup
9 * Interface cleaned up by
10 * \author Angus Leeming <a.leeming@ic.ac.uk>
12 * Class Systemcalls uses "system" to launch the child process.
13 * The user can choose to wait or not wait for the process to complete, but no
14 * callback is invoked upon completion of the child.
16 * The child process is not killed when the Systemcall instance goes out of
42 /** Generate instance and start child process.
43 * The string "what" contains a commandline with arguments separated
46 Systemcalls(Starttype how, string const & what);
48 /** Start child process.
49 * This is for reuse of the Systemcalls instance.
51 int startscript(Starttype how, string const & what);