Re: fork & execve

[Sreeji K Das <bksys@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] sindhoor pangal wrote:

> 
> --- 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
> ?

man fork would give u answers.
The newly created process differs from the parent process only in PID.

Sreeji