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augustus123 11-29-2004 06:42 AM
what is the difference between Fork & exec
 
Hi,

I was not able to understand the difference between the fork and exec

m00t00 11-29-2004 07:32 AM
fork starts a new process which is a copy of the one that calls it, while exec replaces the current process image with another (different) one


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