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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 10:48

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On 7 Jul 2018 08:55:20 GMT
Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2018-07-07, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> > On 7/6/2018 8:00 PM, Dan Espen wrote:
> 
> > The calling process for exec() must be the child process.  ISTM the 
> > child process must signal the parent process and abort... if exec()
> > fails.
> 
> Not necessarily. If the error is 'File not found', there *is* no child
> process.

	SOP exec() doesn't make children.

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