Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxv!pyuxt!marcus From: marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Fork a shell Message-ID: <226@pyuxt.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 19:16:26 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxt.226 Posted: Sat Dec 1 19:16:26 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 05:29:37 EST References: <39300025@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 9 > What does it mean "to fork a shell?" It depends on the context. It may mean that the program forks, and then execs a shell to perform some command (for example system(3)), or it may mean the mechanism by which the shell executes commands itself (ie by forking and and then execing). Either way, its a fairly loosely expressed term whose meaning should be evident from the context. marcus hand (pyuxt!marcus)