fork/system/child processes

Don dnrlinux at san.rr.com
Wed Dec 3 08:04:44 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 22:53, Iain Buchanan wrote:

> You should use fork with exec, not system.  Then if it behaves anything
> like the C-style exec, just kill the child pid from the parent, to kill
> the process you just exec'd.

That's EXACTLY what I wanted.... and I was so close.... :-)

Thanks,
Don





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