Yeah, that's what I meant (shared code segments that is...hey, its in memory, its shared, if that's an incorrect usage of the term 'shared memory', then I apologize) :-)

When I spout off half remembered ideas, I do try to label them as such, and even though I don't always know what I'm talking about, someone is able to figure it out and (re)fill in the (wrongly filled in) blanks...

And to Abigail-II, by 'exec' I meant exec w/o the fork (like in perl's exec as opposed to the system function, or a shell exec command).