Camm Maguire wrote: > Greetings! In case this helps, at least under gdb, the parent is > dying before we even get to execve. If a sleep is put in the child at > the top of main(), it is never reached. We can break at system(), > though. I had a feeling of dejavu when I read this... May be related to this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2009/12/msg00035.html Hth, FJP