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I am working on a relatively simple, independent " process starter " that I would like to get to work on Windows (XP, Vista, 7), Linux (Ubuntu 10.10) and especially Mac OS X (10.6). Linux and Windows basically work, but I'm having some trouble with the Mac version. I was hoping fork() and exec() functions would work the same way under Mac OS as they work in Linux. So my first question is: Should I use these to create a process on the Mac or are there any platform specific functions to be used? My current code (which worked fine under Linux) to debug this looks something like this: pid_t processId = 0; if (processId = fork()) == 0) { const char * tmpApplication = "/Path/to/TestApplication"; int argc = 1; char * argv[argc + 1]; argv[0] = tmpApplication; argv[1] = NULL; execv(tmpApplication, argv); }else { //[...] } Any idea if this could work under Mac OS X as well, because my child process is simply not being launched, while there are no errors that would come up. Thank you!
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