Right. That explains it then. I couldn't see that documented anywhere but
it makes sense.
Thanks everyone!
On Jan 19, 2013 12:54 AM, "Nick Andrew" <n...@nick-andrew.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 05:57:09PM +1100, Chris Barnes wrote:
> > What i mean is if the parent forked at the line
> > pid = fork();
> > Then the child would begin executing at the next instruction. In this
> case
> > If(pid > 0){ exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }
>
> Both parent and child resume/start executing at the next instruction, which
> is the if() test. The child gets a return value of 0 from fork() whereas
> the
> parent gets a non-zero positive value. So in the parent, pid > 0 whereas
> in the child, pid = 0. All other variables (all memory contents) are
> identical between the parent and the child.
>
> Nick.
>
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