On Saturday 08 January 2005 16:10, Jaydeep Chokshi wrote: > > Now My confusion is as follows, > > $exit > > doin this shell exits right, How come shell shold exit > because 1st shell forked and had child process to > execute the 'exit' call and thats why exit terminates > but how this affect the shell to terminate, I mean it > is child process who executed the 'exit' call so why > then shell exits. There is no fork() call. exit is a shell builtin. Running it, causes the shell to terminate. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
