Ben Morrow <ben [at] morrow.me.uk> writes:

> I am confused. How is one (on a fork/exec-based system, or perl's
> emulation of such under Win32) supposed to avoid calling exec when
> necessary?

By using fork(), ofcourse! Am I missing something?

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Quoth Joost Diepenmaat <joost [at] zeekat.nl>:
> Ben Morrow <ben [at] morrow.me.uk> writes:
>
> > I am confused. How is one (on a fork/exec-based system, or perl's
> > emulation of such under Win32) supposed to avoid calling exec when
> > necessary?
>
> By using fork(), ofcourse! Am I missing something?

Err... yes? fork creates a clone of the current process, exec changes
which file the current process is executing. Any method of executing an
external program, on Unix, ends up calling exec.

Ben