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Re: fork & execve



sindhoor pangal wrote:
> 
> hi
> i am a little confused on what the system calls fork
> and execve do. can someone please tell me ?
> sindhoor
fork() makes a copy of the current process. both the child and parent
continue to run.
exec*() functions are used to start new process. the current process is
replaced by the new process.
HTH
-- 
Anand Biligiri S