On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:28:39PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 February 2002 4:18 pm, John Levon wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:59:09PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> >
> > > I'd like to commit the attached patch.
> >
> > are you trying to confuse :)
> >
> > + if (pid<=0) { // Fork failed.
> > + retval = 1;
>
> Sorry, I don't follow you. We tried to fork and failed, so return an
> indication of such to the function that invoked startscript. Why is that
> confusing.
The comment is wrong. <=0 is not failure. <0 is failure, but ==0 is
'this is the child process'.
Jules
