in reply to Re: exec on Windows "halfway forks"
in thread exec on Windows "halfway forks"

My guess is that the parent thread, started with the relative path, starts a new thread with the EXEC and then exits,

(New process, not new thread)

But what's causing it to exit? An exec emulation should wait for the child to finish. And it does last I checked. (My Windows system is down, at the moment.)

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Re^3: exec on Windows "halfway forks"
by Yary (Pilgrim) on Jun 14, 2010 at 17:58 UTC
    You're right, even though this is windows we're talking here, exec really is starting a new process.
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