How to call a system command with flexibility on Windows

[Mark Hammond]

Nicolas Fleury wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>     I have a hard time trying to call a system command with the 
> following capability on Windows:
> - Redirection of stdout and stderr.
> - Have the return code.
> 
> The documentation seems to say it's only possible on Unix, have I missed 
> something.  Thx for your help.


Some, if not all of the popen functions on Windows will return the exit 
code of the program when closing the last returned handle.  I'm afraid I 
have no time to check the docs or find sample code, but it does work :)

Mark.