Dear All,
I am trying launch another application when my application start
(just helloworld for simple example)
but parent application is terminated when call execl to open child process


Kindly help

Regards
Wael

If you're using Qt you should use something like QProcess.
If you're using Gtk+ you should use something like g_spawn.

And if your some reason you still want to use exec(), you should check on the definition of it. But I really suggest you use one of the above.