from the 'exec' man page
csh
exec executes command in place of the current shell, which terminates.
using exec to run your commands would kill the only useless process of the
three ... the one waiting for xterm to exit. Wouldn't it?
David
At 05:14 PM 3/27/97 -0700, Randy J. Ray wrote:
>There needs to be a way to get Exec to *not* use a shell in the execution; a
>way to have it use execv() directly. Working in a heavy mutil-system
>environment, I usually have a lot of xterms running at once, as well as a host
>of things spawned by Xdm prior to starting fvwm. After a while, my process
>table starts to get dangerously close to full, and my biggest offender are
>shells waiting around for their sub-process xterms to complete. If the xterm
>is on my local machine, I'm using three processes-- a shell to execute xterm,
>xterm itself, and the shell that xterm controls!
>
>Randy
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