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UWA week 35 (2nd semester, week 6) ↓

1st project Spawning Command Declaration (all 3)

6:42am Thu 31st Aug, Christopher M.

"Jacob Read" <23*7*9*6@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote:

> No, otherwise nothing would ever be spawned. Only the first command is run, so if spawn is to be a valid sycall, it must be able to refer to commands after. Also, this has been answered by Chris previously.

Great reply - thanks. It's almost as if induction is involved! Yes, a process may spawn another process whose definition has already appeared, or is yet to appear, in the commands file.