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[ILUG] don't pass open file descriptor to children

[ILUG] don't pass open file descriptor to children

Padraig Brady Padraig at AnteFacto.com
Fri Jul 13 17:27:57 IST 2001


>>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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