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From: klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
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Subject: Re: Firing up a process and not wait()ing on it..
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Date: 19 Dec 89 20:54:24 GMT
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In article <1989Dec19.191032.21857@lavaca.uh.edu>, jet@lavaca.uh.edu (J.
Eric Townsend) writes:
> Maybe there's an obvious answer to this that I didn't hit while
> RTFM'ing.  While in process foo, I want to crank up process bar
> and have it run independently of foo. 

The standard way of doing this is to fork (or vfork) and execl (or
execv).  Any good UNIX programming book should have example code.

Ken Lee
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