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Article #624795Re: The Peter Principle
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 10:42
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 10:42
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On 7/7/2018 2:17 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 01:45:22 -0500 > 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. > I can understand using exec() to chain several process images together. This can often be done with pipes, if the processes are built right... input from stdin, output to stdout. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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