On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:05:09PM +0100, Michael Schnell wrote: > I did not know about this wording. With exec*() the process stays the > same (same pid), and it's still a child of the same parent. It just gets > new memory and some initialization is done (man execve=).
The new memory and initialization is what would make things allowed. The reason you can do a lot of stuff before exec is that you are still borrowing the parents memory space. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
