what is the difference between Fork & exec

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11-29-2004, 06:42 AM	#1
augustus123 LQ Newbie Registered: Nov 2004 Location: kolakaran pettai Posts: 7 Rep:	what is the difference between Fork & exec Hi, I was not able to understand the difference between the fork and exec

11-29-2004, 07:32 AM	#2
m00t00 Member Registered: Sep 2004 Distribution: Slackware 10, Gentoo Posts: 292 Rep:	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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