>>Oops should have been a bit more descriptive (pardon the pun).
>>This has to be general (I don't have to source to the children).
>>> Then you need a lesson on the difference between fork() and
> exec()... If you're writing the program calling fork(), then
> you _have_ source for the children. It's the _same_ code.
Thanks. Yes I shouldn't have mentioned fork as it was irrelevant.
The children usually are forked & execed, but things can be
directly execed also.
Padraig.
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