Re: [LIP] fork()...
"Josy P. Pullockara" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.user-groups.linux.india.programmers |
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| Organization | National Aerospace Laboratories |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 06:37, [email protected] wrote: > if we assume that fork() doesn't return 0 for child. > then what else it can return. > > lets assume it returns parent pid, > then i want to know what are the consqueces for it? You will not know which is the parent process and which one is the child unless of-course you use getppid() to compare the parent process id which you want returned by fork. > benefits one api will reduce. getppid(); As above this API will not reduce! Regards. -- Josy P. Pullockara Scientist, eMail:[email protected] Computational and Theoretical Phone:+91-80-2505 1627 Fluid Dynamics Division, Fax :+91-80-2522 0952 National Aerospace Laboratories Res. :+91-80-2524 5053 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click