How to start a program in a application ?

[Simon Heath]

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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