Re: FVWM: Re: Exec vs. exec

From: Bob Woodside <proteus_at_pcnet.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 21:50:49 -0500 (EST)

On 03-Apr-97 Randy J. Ray wrote:
>
> ...my process table disagrees. Running 2.0.45, any command of the form:
>
> Exec sub-command
>
>versus
>
>Exec exec sub-command
>
>leaves a shell process wrapping sub-command, waiting to it to terminate.


    This is what makes the Unix world so much fun, don't you think? On my
Linux (2.0.27) system, I get no such thing. Kai Grossjohann quite reasonably
suggested that it depends on whether you end your command string with an
ampersand, but I think it depends a lot more on which flavor of Unix and which
command shell you're using - and the complexity of the sub-command string, of
course.


    - Bob
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