Virtual memory management, changing the address space with exec.

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In the previous section (refer to Virtual Memory Management in RHEL: Address Space Creation), a new process was created using the fork() function. This resulted in a copy of the original process running. For both the parent and the child processes, fork() returned a different value. It returned the PID (Process Identifier) of the child that was just created ...

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