working of fork and exec

[Jonathan Neuschäfer]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:32:45PM +0530, Niroj Pokhrel wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have been using fork and exec for sometime. But I have no idea about what
> are the things done by the kernel when we fork or exec and how things work.
> How the kernel load new program and what all things are done ....... Can
> anybody please explain me this ? Thank you in advance.

I recommend reading linux-0.12.

Jonathan Neuschäfer