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- From: alpet@airmail.net (Adam Peterson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Feature of spawnv()
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 06:34:49 GMT
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- terdthai@kku1.kku.ac.th (terdthai tong-un) wrote:
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- >How about feature of spawn function?
- >How difference from exec() and system() function?
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- Generally, exec() & system() run another program entirely. Or program
- 'A' exec's and runs 'B'. Spawn creates another copy of the current
- program, so 'A' spawns, then there are 2 copies of 'A' in memory.
- This has been my experience from Unix, never done this under Dos.
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- Adam
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