Is there a better way to shell out a command in C++ than system()?

Programmer Question

I have a C++ windows service that sometimes crashes when I call the system() function to shell out a command. I've run the exact text of the command in the windows command-line, and it runs just fine, but for some reason it fails when system() is run.

To make matters worse, I can't seem to get any information as to why system() is failing. There doesn't seem to be an exception raised, because I'm doing a catch(...) and nothing's getting caught. My service just stops running. I know that it's the call to system() that is failing because I've put logging information before and after the call, and anything after just doesn't log anything.

So, is there a different way that I can shell out my command? At the very least, something that will give me some information if things go wrong, or at least let me handle an exception or something.

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