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Why does windows spawn process sometimes trigger error STATUS_SXS_ASSEMBLY_NOT_FOUND?

Jun 18, 2012 See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

As specified here _spawn, _wspawn Functions, only the functions with a 'p' letter in the name implicitely use the PATH environment variable. The others don't.

So you need to do this:

char *args[] =  {"notepad.exe", NULL };
_spawnvpe(_P_NOWAIT, args[0], args, NULL);