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Old 04-16-2008
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Hell Sir,
This is chanikya
Is there any System call which behaves just like fork but i dont want to return back two times to the calling func.
In the following ex iam creating a child process in the called func but the ex prints two times IN MAIN.


ex :-

calling()
{
fork();

}

main()
{
calling();
printf("IN MAIN\n");
}
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Old 04-16-2008
I think you are looking for one of the exec calls like execlp();

try man execlp
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Old 04-16-2008
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