Re: your mail

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:57:00PM -0800, John D. wrote:
>
> Also, out of curiosity, the exec{l*,v*} commands don't seem
> to return to the calling program, but instead exit
> directly back to the OS. This seems strange.
> Using OpenBSD 3.2 with gcc, if anyone cares.

I suggest that you go to a computer library and buy a introduction book to C programming for Unix.

exec and fork are very basic Unix concept.

Also, reading man page is implicated when programming in C on any Unix systems.

The FIRST sentence in the exec man page is:

        The exec family of functions replace the current process
        image with a new process image

What part of "replacing" you don't understand.

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