The Lua standard library function os.execute() would be one way to do it. Or you could probably interface with C to call whatever OS functions are available from there (e.g. popen() or fork()/exec() in Linux).
Hope this helps.
Simon
Excerpts from Jason.han's message of 2013-03-01 20:33:45 -0700:
Hi all, I want to start a program in my application ,(e.g task A--->start task B) I can't get enough information in latest source version , so I wonder if some know whether there is some system call like fork() or APIs to do this. Please give me some suggestion ,and example it preferred .
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