NAME
    CreateNewProc -- Create a new process (V36)

SYNOPSIS
    process = CreateNewProc(tags)
    D0                       D1

    struct Process *CreateNewProc(struct TagItem *)

    process = CreateNewProcTagList(tags)
    D0                              D1

    struct Process *CreateNewProcTagList(struct TagItem *)

    process = CreateNewProcTags(Tag1, ...)

    struct Process *CreateNewProcTags(ULONG, ...)

FUNCTION
    This creates a new process according to the tags passed in.  See
    dos/dostags.h for the tags.

    You must specify one of NP_Seglist or NP_Entry.  NP_Seglist takes a
    seglist (as returned by LoadSeg()).  NP_Entry takes a function
    pointer for the routine to call.

    There are many options, as you can see by examining dos/dostags.h.
    The defaults are for a non-CLI process, with copies of your
    CurrentDir, HomeDir (used for PROGDIR:), priority, consoletask,
    windowptr, and variables.  The input and output filehandles default
    to opens of NIL:, stack to 4000, and others as shown in dostags.h.
    This is a fairly reasonable default setting for creating threads,
    though you may wish to modify it (for example, to give a descriptive
    name to the process.)

    CreateNewProc() is callable from a task, though any actions that
    require doing Dos I/O (DupLock() of currentdir, for example) will not
    occur.

    NOTE: if you call CreateNewProc() with both NP_Arguments, you must
    not specify an NP_Input of NULL.  When NP_Arguments is specified, it
    needs to modify the input filehandle to make ReadArgs() work properly.

INPUTS
    tags - a pointer to a TagItem array.

RESULT
    process - The created process, or NULL.  Note that if it returns
              NULL, you must free any items that were passed in via
              tags, such as if you passed in a new current directory
              with NP_CurrentDir.

BUGS
    In V36, NP_Arguments was broken in a number of ways, and probably
    should be avoided (instead you should start a small piece of your
    own code, which calls RunCommand() to run the actual code you wish
    to run).  In V37, NP_Arguments works, though see the note above.

SEE ALSO
    LoadSeg(), CreateProc(), ReadArgs(), RunCommand(), <dos/dostags.h>

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