[Gretl-devel] append and sleep

[Sven Schreiber]

Allin Cottrell schrieb:

> Duh!  You're quite right.  fork(), execl() and friends are a bit of a
> mystery to me, but we were already waiting for the child to exit on
> Linux.  Now I just need to get that working on Windows. Next questions:
> Is there a useful role for a non-waiting variant of "!" on Linux?  Which
> should be the default, waiting or
> non-waiting?
> 

Waiting!

In principle I can also see the use for non-waiting (like start a pdf
viewer, and don't wait until it is closed again), but until somebody
requests it I wouldn't bother (if I were you).

But getting the waiting to work on Windows would be very nice, otherwise
I lose the cross-platformness of my py4gretl... Unfortunately I don't
know anything about that stuff.

-sven