If you open sublime-text in Linux Mint, which of exec() or system() gets called?
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1where's the research effort? what did you try so far? – stefan May 26 '13 at 10:14
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`system()` is a libc function, not a system call. – May 26 '13 at 20:40
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+1 because google took me here for my question and the answer is what I wanted. But the question itself is very poor indeed. lol – msb Feb 24 '17 at 05:09
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You can use strace to track the system calls made a program:
$ strace -o mystrace.log sublime-text
That will output a chronological list of the system calls traced to the file mystrace.log. The first system call in the log will probably answer your question: typically, a variant of exec* is called such as execve.
If you're curious about how executable binary files actually run however, check out the differences between raw binary and ELF files.
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