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Date:	Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:27:08 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Time sharing and fork
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:50:07PM +0000, Stephane Corbe wrote:
>An interresting part of strace traces of the programm show well that the
>child didn't start before the death of his father :

That's not guaranteed fork behavior.  If the child never started, that would
be a bug.  There is no guaranteed behavior with respect to which process is
scheduled after a fork on windows or linux.  If you want to serialize things
use one of the wait calls.

cgf
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