In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212092317410.8611-100000 / eli.fsl.noaa.gov>,
ahoward wrote:

> i have gotten around this problem by spawning another process using
> the unix at command with a time of 'now'

Neat trick!  OK, I have implemented it and it will do for now.  But
it's not ideal: I would really like the spawned process's stdin,
stdout and stderr to be the same as the original.  Which AFAIK means I
would have to fork.  But thanks anyway.

Jeremy Henty