Process creation

The process manager component of procnto is responsible for process creation. If a process wants to create another process, it makes a call to one of the process-creation functions, which then effectively sends a message to the process manager.

Here are the process-creation functions:

When you start a new process, it replaces the existing process if:

The existing process may be suspended while the new process executes (control continues at the point following the place where the new process was started) in the following situations:

There are several versions of spawn*() and exec*(). The * is one to three letters, where:

For details on each of these functions, see their entries in the QNX Neutrino C Library Reference. Here we'll mention some of the things common to many of them.