Re: fork & execve

[sindhoor pangal <sindhoor@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Anand Biligiri S <AnandS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
fork() makes a copy of the current process. both the
> child and parent
> continue to run.


does that mean  that all the environment variables and
the contex remain exactly the same for a chile process
?

> exec*() functions are used to start new process. the
> current process is
> replaced by the new process.
> HTH
> -- 
> Anand Biligiri S
> 
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