From: sbiswas@novell.com (Soumen Biswas) Subject: fork - Is there a problem: 30 Aug 1997 12:42:13 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Hi , I am new to gnu-win32 . I have the following prob: while forking ( ver - b18 .) /* Example Code*/ int main() { int x; if( !fork() ) printf("Child\n" ); else printf("Parent\n"); /* If wait is commented out the program shows errors*/ wait( &x ) ; return x ; } The the above code works fine BUT IF wait() is commented out the program becomes unpredictable ( sometimes it works ... sometimes shows EXCEPTION TRAPPED ... I think it depends on which process finishes first - chid || parent . Is the above behaviour a bug or is this the way fork() is supposed to work in cygwin Is there a workaround ????? thanx Soumen sbiswas@novell.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".