[Tutor] chain gangs of the mind...

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry shalehperry at comcast.net
Sun Aug 17 21:01:09 EDT 2003


On Sunday 17 August 2003 19:30, Kirk Bailey wrote:
> In this case, the new program runs at the very end of the old one-
> specifically, when the editor finishes, I want it to hand off to the
> browser, handing it the name of the page just edited. so it will do the
> displaying of the result, avoiding having to write the display engine
> another time, import parts of the script, yadayadayada... I figured that if
> I do it right, I can avoid having more in  memory than is needed for the
> CURRENT program. Forking in this application is not needed.
>

silly.

That's the point.  If you *JUST* exec() the new process takes over the old 
one.  Kind of like in the Matrix where an Agent takes over one of the humans 
still trapped.

And Kirk, please, no need to CC people who respond to you.  Just reply to the 
list.  Thanks.




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