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To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the OS
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command interpreter that invoked it. The state of the parent program is lost
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and there is no returning to it. Though this facility used to be common on
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memory-limited micros and is still widely supported for backward
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compatibility, the jargon usage is semi-obsolescent; in particular, most
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Unix programmers will think of this as an exec. Oppose the more modern
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subshell. 2. n. A series of linked data areas within an operating system or
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application. Chain rattling is the process of repeatedly running through the
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linked data areas searching for one which is of interest to the executing
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program. The implication is that there is a very large number of links on
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the chain.
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