Execute an Independent Executable from a C program

Hi,

I want to start an executable file from my C program and so far I have used system("...") and execl("....",...) but the problem with these are: with system the main C program waits for the started process to finish and by execl the main C program terminates when the new process terminates.

is there any other way to execute an independent process which works independent of my program?

Thanks

You can fork() before executing the other program...then just do the execution in the child process.

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