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Re: Hiding a process



On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:55:43PM -0500, Daniel DiPaolo wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 20:15, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> >  > exec -a $NAME $COMMAND $ARGS
> > 
> > exec -a /sbin/getty 31337r007k17 -destroyeverything
> > 
> > ;->
> 
> 
> Note that this is a shell specific thing (doesn't work in zsh, and I
> can't find the equivalent in the zsh man pages).
> 
> Works fine in bash though :)

AFAIK, it's a Bourne Shell builtin which is generally the only portable
shell scripting language.  I don't know why zsh wouldn't support it,
as the functionality is available from the underlying family of C 
system calls...

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>


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