you said that the parent process returns 0. so wouldn't it be:
if (fork())
{
//child
}
else
{
//parent
}
Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: ty...@tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Hruska
To: c-prog@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: [c-prog] C language
Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> got it, thanks. so the fork just starts on the line after fork for the
child process?
>
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
> Web: tysdomain.com
> email: ty...@tysdomain.com
> My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
No, it starts on the same line. The return value is typically used in
the 'if' statement that fork() is a part of.
if (fork())
{
// Parent process.
}
else
{
// Child process.
}
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