Date: 2023jan18 Language: C/C++ Q. Win32: Use spawnv() to easily run a process A. If you want specify a known number of arguments to an executable to run, using spawnv() is a great choice. You area passing the arguments directly to the main(argv, argv) of the other program. You don't need to be concerned with the shell and quoting. Here is an example running the Windows "sc" to see if a service is installed.

#include <process.h> bool isMyServiceInstalled() { LPCSTR scExe = "c:\\windows\\system32\\sc.exe"; LPCSTR args[] = { "sc", "query", "MyService", NULL }; const intptr_t result = spawnv(P_WAIT, scExe, args); return result == 0; }