From: DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall)
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Subject: Re: What's the difference between system, spawn and exec?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 15:49:58 GMT
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system() uses the shell (command processor) to process the command you
give it. So, you can use internal shell commands.

spawn() executes another process (program) and continues running your
program

exec() executes another process, after effectively terminating your
program.


Davin.

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:43:09 GMT, ykgoh AT email DOT com (Goh Yong Kwang)
wrote:

>The functions, system(), spawn() and exec() are used to execute other programs 
>or commands. So what's the difference between them?
>
>When should I use system(), spawn() and exec()?

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