Thread: calling other programs

How do you start another program from within the current running program without the calling program waiting for the return status, as system() does ?

I would like one program to start another, then the calling program to end leaving the child program running.

There is avaliable the spawnl function (process.h). Using KERNEL32.DLL CreateProcess will get the job done...

Code:

#include <windows.h>

int main(void)
{
    STARTUPINFO si;
    PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;

    GetStartupInfo(& si);

    CreateProcess(
        "\\windows\\notepad.exe",
        "notepad",
        0,
        0,
        FALSE,
        NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,
        0,
        0,
        &si,
        &pi
    );

   CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
   CloseHandle(pi.hThread);

    return(0);
}

Notepad will be left in process while the calling application's process terminates.