functions. In C, there is no single, plain exec function. The Linux kernel has one corresponding system call named execve, whereas all other functions...

process", makes any environment changes the child will need and then calls the exec system call to overlay itself with the new program: it ceases execution of...

in turn execute instructions that invoke the fork and exec system calls. Making the system call directly in the application code is more complicated and...

by RotorWay International An abbreviation for executive exec (system call), an operating system function for running a program eval, a programming language...

access other libraries. Exec was designed and implemented by Carl Sassenrath. Unlike newer modern operating systems, the exec kernel does not run "privileged"...

Fork–exec is a commonly used technique in Unix whereby an executing process spawns a new program. fork() is the name of the system call that the parent...

Monitor System (VM/CMS) operating system. EXEC was written in 1966 by Stuart Madnick at MIT on the model of CTSS RUNCOM. He originally called this processor...

commands if called from within a Bourne shell. An attempt to directly execute such a file via the operating system's own exec() system call would fail...

Exec Shield is a project started at Red Hat, Inc in late 2002 with the aim of reducing the risk of worm or other automated remote attacks on Linux systems...

program clean-up. This may be used, for example, in a fork-exec routine when the exec call fails to replace the child process; calling atexit routines...

tape loaders. Backup Exec employs an automated installation process. Installing Backup Exec 15 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 system takes around 30 minutes...

operating system for the Unisys ClearPath Dorado family of mainframe systems. The operating system kernel of OS 2200 is a lineal descendant of Exec 8 for...

In Unix-like operating systems, dup (short for "duplicate") and dup2 system calls create a copy of a given file descriptor. This new descriptor actually...

their argv to give a more descriptive argv[0], usually by means of the exec system call. The main() function is special; normally every C and C++ program must...

bootstrapped, and executed. In Unix (and in Unix-like operating systems), the exec() system call is used to perform chain loading. The program image of the...

programs. A typical Command-level call might look like the following: EXEC CICS SEND MAPSET('LOSMATT') MAP('LOSATT') END-EXEC The values given in the SEND...

operating system based on a preemptive multitasking kernel, called Exec. It includes an abstraction of the Amiga's hardware, a disk operating system called AmigaDOS...

with an error message of "Argument list too long" (meaning that the exec system call's limit on the length of a command line was exceeded): rm /path/* or...

Unix's ability to pass long argument lists efficiently through the exec system call that csh uses to execute commands. By contrast, on Windows, wildcard...

produced the EXEC I operating system, and Computer Sciences Corporation developed the EXEC II operating system and delivered it to UNIVAC. EXEC II was ported...

When a command name is specified by the user or an exec call is made from a program, the system searches through $PATH, examining each directory from...

TSS/370 PRPQ, which is now gone. The EXEC II operating system for the UNIVAC 1107 and 1108, and the EXEC 8 operating system for the 1108, which has evolved...

organization bore strong resemblance to the CDC SCOPE operating system on the CDC 7600 and before that EXEC*8 from CDC's earlier ERA/Univac pedigree. User jobs were...

When a process requests a service from the kernel, it must invoke a system call, usually through a wrapper function. There are different kernel architecture...

special type such as code (as in Python). The analog for a statement is exec, which executes a string (or code in other format) as if it were a statement;...

and full-size (8-inch) floppy drives. The Poly disk operating system was called Exec. The three disk drives were distinguished by numbers enclosed in...

kexec (kernel execute), analogous to the Unix/Linux kernel call exec, is a mechanism of the Linux kernel that allows booting of a new kernel from the...

brk and sbrk are basic memory management system calls used in Unix and Unix-like operating systems to control the amount of memory allocated to the heap...

most portions of the operating system. It is saved and restored as part of activity (thread) state. The other set, the Exec registers, is used by interrupt...

one or more "EXEC PGM=" and DD statements and then invoking them with "EXEC PROC=procname" -or- simply "EXEC procname" A facility called a Procedure Library...