At 06:10 PM 3/28/97 -0800, Nadim Saeed wrote:
>What's the difference between the following two statements
>
>+ Exec xterm -T Local &
>+ Exec exec xterm -T Local &
>
>
>Which one is recommended ?
I would recommend the latter
>Which one is faster ?
the second may be slightly slower, but nothing anything short of an analyzer
could detect.
>Which one is correct ? Why ?
The second.
It doesn't use up a process table entry with the shell waiting for the xterm
to exit; there's no need to do this when the exec can launch xterm and
terminate the shell, freeing up the process table entry for other, more
important uses.
David
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Received on Fri Mar 28 1997 - 20:19:21 GMT