1) you can fork in the program you are launching

2) you can fork in the command you are launching�� just like a regular shell (because that's what system() does) e.g.

MyObject new system:��'{ sleep 5; touch /tmp/test.txt; } &'

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Hilaire <hilaire@drgeo.eu> wrote:

So cool.
For a command taking some time to execute, can it be make non-blocking
for the image?

For example when using it from a Seaside server where you need to
execute such a command but you do not want to bock all the Seaside sessions.

Thanks

Hilaire

Le 20/06/2016 18:03, Peter Uhn��k a ��crit :
> You can use FFI; just create an object with a method��
>
> MyObject>>system: command
> "Perform OS system() call."
>
> ^ self ffiCall: #(int system #(char * command)) module: LibC
>
>
> And then you can do something like
>
> MyObject new system: 'ln -s /tmp/source /tmp/target'

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