Re: [RFD] Combined fork-exec syscall.

Craig Ruff (cruff@ucar.edu)
Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:28:56 -0600

> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > The Unix API provides execve(), fexecve(), execv(), execle(),
> > execl(), execvp(), and execlp() for what you call 'exec'. So
> > there is no 'fork and exec' as you state.

By the way, the latest ISO/IEC 9945-1:2002 POSIX standard defines the
posix_spawn* functions which provide this fork/exec style of operation.
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