28 Sep
2014
28 Sep
'14
1:37 a.m.
On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 01:19 -0700, Scott Howard wrote:
If one C program runs another C program, and if it does it via the system() function call (a standard C function since, well, pretty much forever), then it does it by calling bash. You can replace "C program" with basically anything else in that sentence, and the result is the same.
Eee when I were a lad, you forked a copy of your running program, then exec'd the new one on top of it. Steve -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MIITP http://www.greengecko.co.nz Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveholdoway Skype: sholdowa