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Re: forking madness

From Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: forking madness
Date 2015-03-07 07:07 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <pan.2015.03.07.07.07.01.613000@nowhere.invalid> (permalink)
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On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 01:20:01 -0800, fir wrote:

>> fork() is not a standard C function.  It's defined by POSIX, a secondary
>> standard.  Because of this, you're likely to get better answers if you
>> post to comp.unix.programmer.
> 
> I disagree, some tend to like treat c in extremally narrow way, For me
> even the topics concerning something like game dev or graphics topics
> but in c implementation are on topic here, same as topics of c
> libraries, details of c compilers etc

Even if we accept that, it's not applicable here.

The OP's problem is specifically related to the semantics of the POSIX
fork() system call. The fact that he's using it from C doesn't make the
issue related to C.

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forking madness Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn@panix.com> - 2015-03-02 23:41 +0000
  Re: forking madness Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-02 16:05 -0800
    Re: forking madness fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-03-03 01:20 -0800
      Re: forking madness Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2015-03-03 15:50 +0100
        Re: forking madness fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-03-03 07:57 -0800
      Re: forking madness Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2015-03-07 07:07 +0000
        Re: forking madness fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-03-07 05:05 -0800
  Re: forking madness Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-03-02 19:25 -0500
    Re: forking madness Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-03-02 19:32 -0500
    Re: forking madness ruben <nowhere@nowhere.nor> - 2015-03-03 14:56 +0000
      Re: forking madness Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-03 07:54 -0800
    Re: forking madness asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-03-05 00:03 -0800
      Re: forking madness asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-03-05 00:21 -0800
        Re: forking madness asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-03-05 00:44 -0800
  Re: forking madness Lőrinczy Zsigmond <nospam@for.me> - 2015-03-03 17:45 +0100
    Re: forking madness Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-03 09:44 -0800
      Re: forking madness Lőrinczy Zsigmond <nospam@for.me> - 2015-03-03 19:06 +0100
        Re: forking madness James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-03-03 13:57 -0500
          Re: forking madness Lőrinczy Zsigmond <nospam@for.me> - 2015-03-04 06:53 +0100
            Re: forking madness Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-03-05 14:09 -0800

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