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Article #624796Re: The Peter Principle
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 11:31
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 11:31
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 05:42:40 -0500 Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: > 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. Nope that needs several processes - think more in terms of a dispatcher or overlay manager, It's been a longish time but some of the CP/M application suites I wrote went from phase to phase using exec(). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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