petdance/scratch — Issue #542: 'spawnw' return value:  make it OS-independent
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-14 06:01:08+00:00
State: open
Labels: bug, core, Pri-normal, Sev-medium

This ticket formerly existed as RT #36619. It was entered into RT by particle on 21 Jul 2005. I am moving it to Trac at [http://wknight8111.blogspot.com/2009/07/parrot4newbies-platforms.html the suggestion of whiteknight on his blog], which is also available on [http://planet.parrotcode.org/ planet.parrotcode (July 17)].
Original ticket description:

'''the return value from 'spawnw' is highly system dependent as currently implemented. instead, 'spawnw' should return something object-like, that wraps the platform-specific semantics.'''

Here are some files in our distribution that will be relevant to working on this ticket:
```
config/gen/platform.pm
config/gen/platform/ansi/exec.c
config/gen/platform/generic/exec.c
config/gen/platform/generic/memexec.c
config/gen/platform/openbsd/memexec.c
config/gen/platform/win32/exec.c
src/ops/sys.ops
tools/dev/pbc_to_exe.pir
t/op/spawnw.t
t/pmc/sys.t
docs/book/draft/ch10_opcode_reference.pod
docs/porting_intro.pod
```
Cf. also TT #847.

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/848