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How does system() exactly work in linux?
For the sake of my curiosity,
I want to know that how does system() function spawn the process and its internal implemenation ?
Is is using fork , exec internally ?
On my Debian box it uses clone() that itself calls sys_clone(). You can use strace to look at system calls.