id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
848,'spawnw' return value:  make it OS-independent,jkeenan,,"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.

",bug,new,normal,,core,1.3.0,medium,,spawn,particle whiteknight,,,all