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Process

Child processes, started and polled — what a launcher is made of. Process.spawn starts a program directly, with no shell, and returns at once; each frame Process.poll answers -1 while the child runs and its exit code once it has ended, so a crash is a non-zero code the game can act on. Process.kill ends a child and Process.free lets a handle go. Pair it with App.window_hide to step aside while the child runs. The child inherits the environment and the working directory. posix_spawn on macOS; CreateProcessW on Windows, with each argument quoted by the MSVC rules and no console window. Like Http.* it is out-of-band and must never feed the deterministic lockstep/replay simulation.

Process.spawn(path, args) -> intStart a program; never blocks.Process.poll(handle) -> int-1 while running, else the exit code.Process.kill(handle) -> voidEnd a running child.Process.free(handle) -> voidLet a process handle go.

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