CreateProcess (open)

Create a new process

Syntax

LOADLIB "wh::os.whlib";

OBJECT FUNCTION CreateProcess(STRING processexecutable, STRING ARRAY arguments, RECORD options)

Parameters

STRING processexecutable

Path to executable

STRING ARRAY arguments

Arguments for the process

RECORD options

Options

merge_output_errors

TRUE if the error stream should be merged into the output stream (requires take_output=TRUE, ignores take_errors)

separate_processgroup

TRUE if the process should be created in a separate process group

take_errors

TRUE if we want to receive the process output stream (if false, it will be discarded)

take_input

TRUE if we want control of the process input stream (if false, it will be tied to EOF)

take_output

TRUE if we want to receive the process output stream (if false, it will be discarded)

virtualmemorylimit

Virtual memory size - either the size in INTEGER(64) bytes or a string like "200MB", "2GB".

Return value

OBJECT
Possible objecttypes:

Process object