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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:25:29 -0500
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: newbie: Out of order execution in script
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At 03:18 PM 11/22/2000, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > I guess I'm confused as to why one should expect things exec'd to run in 
> > a certain sequence.  Isn't that the point of execing?  If you're going to 
>
>You're thinking of fork() (or perhaps spawn()).  What exec() does is
>replace the current process with a new one, which obviously must be
>done in the right sequence ;)

Yikes!  Gotta read the email more carefully!;-)






Larry



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