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Version: 1.1

Author:

Thomas Wolf (TW) <twolf AT acm DOT org>

Purpose:

Simple operations to execute a command in the OS environment. Implemented by calling the ISO-C standard function "system".

Both versions of Execute should be considered potentially blocking calls.

Also provided is an interface to the ISO C standard function "exit", which should kill the process.

Tasking Semantics

Neither task- nor abortion-safe.

Storage Semantics

No dynamic storage allocation.