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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 07:17

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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:

> Certainly the exec() call has *no* sense of child or parent, and needs 
> none.  But when fork() creates the parent-child pair of processes, the 
> child will be the one that will then call exec().

	Oh sure fork()/exec() is a common pattern but I've used
exec() without fork() and vice-versa a good many times - probably more
often than I've used them together.

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