Our example demonstrates how to replace the current process with another using Groovy. Here’s the translated code and explanation:
When we run our program, it will be replaced by ls:
Note that Groovy doesn’t offer a direct equivalent to the Unix exec system call that completely replaces the current process. Instead, we use ProcessBuilder to start a new process and then exit our current process. This achieves a similar effect, although it’s not exactly the same as the Unix exec.
Also, Groovy (like Java) doesn’t have a direct equivalent to the Unix fork function. However, Groovy provides powerful concurrency features through its GPars library and Java’s concurrency utilities, which cover most use cases for fork.