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MrRoger2
MrRoger2

Reputation: 1

Changing the contents of child processes in c program.

I am pretty new to both linux and c programming. I need to write a c code that creates two child processes, which is fine, but I need to further change the code of one of the child processes to "the code of a ls-command", and the other to "the code of the ps-command".

This is supposed to be a really simple "pseudo-code", but I am not really sure if I understand the question, any tips?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 494

Answers (1)

Ivan Velichko
Ivan Velichko

Reputation: 6709

Sounds like fork() + execve() traditional combination. Call to fork() launches a new process which is a copy of the callee. And the consequent call to execve("ls") will replace the forked process with the content of the ls executable.

For more information see man 2 fork and man 3 execv.

Upvotes: 1

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