I used posix_spawn. The api accomplishes what I need. ----- Original Message ---- From: Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 1:02:58 PM Subject: Re: spawnve on Linux Calin Iaru writes: > I cannot find the documentation for spawnve and I need a function that creates a process and returns. execve is not suitable because it will execute that process in place. This is done by fork(), followed by exec(). "man fork". -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list