Spain

n : a kingdom in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a

former colonial power [syn: {Spain}, {Espana}]

spawn

To create a {child process} in a

{multitasking} {operating system}. E.g. {Unix}'s {fork}

{system call} or one of the spawn() library routines provided

by most {MS-DOS}, {Novell NetWare} and {OS/2} {C} compilers -

spawnl(), spawnle(), etc.

(1995-03-28)