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Re: how is "exec" executed by a shell?

On Saturday 08 January 2005 16:10, Jaydeep Chokshi wrote:
>
> Now My confusion is as follows,
>
> $exit
>
> doin this shell exits right, How come shell shold exit
> because 1st shell forked and had child process to
> execute the 'exit' call and thats why exit terminates
> but how this affect the shell to terminate, I mean it
> is child process who executed the 'exit' call so why
> then shell exits.

There is no fork() call.  exit is a shell builtin.  Running it, causes 
the shell to terminate.

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