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Child Process Creation with Fork and Exec

The document outlines a lab task that involves creating a child process using fork in the parent process and using exec in the child process to show the contents of a directory specified by the user, remove a file specified by the user, and open a file in the gedit editor. The document also states that the task submission is due on the general share by 12:30 PM on March 18, 2013.

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Child Process Creation with Fork and Exec

The document outlines a lab task that involves creating a child process using fork in the parent process and using exec in the child process to show the contents of a directory specified by the user, remove a file specified by the user, and open a file in the gedit editor. The document also states that the task submission is due on the general share by 12:30 PM on March 18, 2013.

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Zain Khilji
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Lab Task

Create a child process using fork, in child


process use exec command to:
Show content of directory desired by user. e.g:
ls /usr
Remove file specified by user rm [Link]
Open any file specified by user in gedit

Submission
Submission on General share by tomorrow (18 March,
2013) 12:30 PM.

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