Re: forking processes

[Pete Ryland <pdr@pdr.cx>]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 03:48:39PM -0600, syuval@softhome.net wrote:
> 		pid = fork(); //split execution 
> 
> 		if(pid == 0) //child process
> 		{
> 			printf("Entering child process!\n");
> 			exit(0);
> 		}
> 		printf("Entering parent process!\n");

It's probably worth checking for a -1 return from fork() and printing out
strerror(errno) to find out what the error is.  According to the man page,
only memory errors are possible, but there are other things like ulimits
that could cause problems too.

Pete
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