exec* exiting?

[Neil Macneale]

Why does the interpreter exit when I use the os.execl() function? Even when
the command works correctly, the interpreter exits. Am I supposed to run
this function is a seperate thread?  Thats lame, if so.

what I am doing:
Reading shell commands from a secure connection to a remote machine. I
thought executing the commands would be a piece of cheese, but this exiting
thing is not what I expected.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Neil Macneale

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