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Subject: Re: fork() problem
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From: Ian T Zimmerman <itz AT lbin DOT com>
Date: 02 Aug 1999 16:38:24 +0000
In-Reply-To: "unknown user"'s message of "Sat, 31 Jul 1999 20:30:27 EDT"
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    unknown> Here's the problem... If I compile the program with this
    unknown> code.. it just crashes, but if i comment this out it
    unknown> compiles and runs fine even though it's not running as
    unknown> it's suppose to be...

/* some code here*/

switch (fork()) {
    case -1:
      printf("Couldn't run in background, exiting...\n");
      exit(1);
      break;
    case 0:
      break;
    default:
      printf("Running in background...\n");
      exit(0);
      break;
  }
/* other stuff*/

This is probably not the cause of your problem, but even on true POSIX 
systems you're not supposed to use exit() in the default case.  Use
_exit() instead.

-- 
Ian Zimmerman
Lightbinders, Inc.
2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107


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