>It is now indeed more discerning, but it has reported Fork failed. But >the fork most certainly has not failed! The shell command invoked has >run, and what's more, completed successfully, producing the expected files.
> Does anyone have any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested: Can you check the errno? strerror(errno); should give you a string of why it failed. (Just be careful not to use other stuff which touches errno after the fork()Of course - very good suggestion (embarrassed I didn't think of it)... anyway...
it returns 10, which perror tells me is "No child processes".
Sooo, I suppose the spawned process is somehow disassociated from the process group prior to execution of the wait() embedded within the system()? Duuh... I'm still stumped, but I guess we are on to something?
On the other hand, if a fork does really fail, one might expect errno to be 10 in that case too.
I've half a mind to break it out into a fork/exec/wait for myself, but, uh, ugh. I guess I'm lazy. Please, briliant insights, anybody?
