Executes another program with a child process received from fork. Instead of waiting, one process just returns the function and the program can just continue whatever it was doing originally.

execute_async.c

// Requires <unistd.h> and <stdlib.h>

void ExecuteAsync(char** argv){
  pid_t pid=fork();
  if(pid==0){
    // child process
    execv(argv[0], argv);
    exit(127);
  }