On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:25:19AM +0000, vignesh babu wrote: > I am k.vignesh babu.Iam having doubt regarding a > exec system call(execlp,execle,execv,execvp,execvp). > All the above mentioned system call will create > another copy and execute as separate process. No, they overwrite the current process with a new program. -- - mdz