C process control refers to a group of functions in the
standard library
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of the
C programming language
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implementing basic process control operations.
The process control operations include actions such as termination of the program with various levels of cleanup, running an external command interpreter or accessing the list of the environment operations.
Overview of functions
The process control functions are defined in the
stdlib.h header (
cstdlib header in C++).
References
External links
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