what is the difference between fork() & exec()
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Answer Posted / antony.t
fork() will create a new process and its a system call API its return values are- if fork created new process(child process), its pid will be returned, if it failed to create returns -1.
exec() is also a system call API but this will load a application, if exec() succeeds it will not return anything but 'll return -1 if it gets failed to load application...
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