From: sukdgm@unx.sas.com (David McNamara) Subject: RE: "Not owner" error when using fork() 25 Nov 1996 09:34:49 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BBDAAE.A9B9A060.cygnus.gnu-win32@stmoritz.pc.sas.com> Original-To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Encoding: 41 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Ooopps...my mistake! I found that I had my executable (we'll call it "xyz.exe") in the same directory as a shell script called "xyz". Once I renamed the shell script everything worked fine. David. ---------- From: David McNamara[SMTP:sukdgm@unx.sas.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 1996 11:59 AM To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: "Not owner" error when using fork() I have been writing an application which requires the use of fork() (and execve()) towards the end of the code. But fork() always returns a negative value and perror() reports "Not owner". I have created a smaller test program to simply test the fork() and execl() functions, and this application works as expected. I have tested both using beta 16 on both Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51. Any ideas?? Thanks, David PS It does sound a little like the archived mailing list posting I found entitled: "problem with fork (as in make)" posted by Michel Dagenais (dagenais@vlsi.polymtl.ca) on Wed, 31 Jan 96 08:28:08 EST, but there didn't appear to be any resolution to this problem. -- David G McNamara (919) 677 8000 Host Systems R&D Testing Section Extn. 4987 SAS Institute Inc. PCR&D Group SAS Campus Drive sukdgm@unx.sas.com R3115 Cary, NC 27513 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".