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in reply to I prefer to:

fork followed by exec

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Re^2: I prefer to:
by gam3 (Curate) on Jan 15, 2007 at 03:21 UTC
    I thought forking was followed by sleep()?
    -- gam3
    A picture is worth a thousand words, but takes 200K.
      do you mean sleep() -> fork() ? but, I meant fork() -> exec()
        fork() --> sleep() time passes --> spawn()