I was wondering if anyone could help me...I need to call xeyes 5 times within the same c++ program...when i use

system("xeyes");

it opens eyes and then it waits for me to close that before opening another one, does anyone know how to open multiple copies and then allow the program to proceed without having to close xeyes..thank you
Jim

Try:

system("xeyes&");

Thank you very much, I am trying to find a book or a website that has all this kind of information on unix, do you have any suggestions.

Hi:

You might want to fork() another process. This is getting into the area of Unix Interprocess Communications, IPC. Google on "fork" unix and you'll get a ton of responses. A good intro to fork() is:

http://www.cs.appstate.edu/~jtw/cs3481/f99/lab/fork.html

Regards,

Nails

"I am trying to find a book or a website that has all this kind of information on unix, do you have any suggestions."

info libc processes