About fork()

[satya]

fork() does't return 2 vaule. it return only one vaule. on success it
returns '0' and of failure it returns '--ve' value.

[santosh]

satya wrote:

fork() does't return 2 vaule. it return only one vaule. on success it
returns '0' and of failure it returns '--ve' value.

Correction, it returns the child-process id to the parent process.
And, it returns 0 to the child process.

On failure, it returns -(ve) value only to the parent process, which is
logical as no child process is created.

[Keith Thompson]

"satya" <ks***********@gmail.com> writes:

fork() does't return 2 vaule. it return only one vaule. on success it
returns '0' and of failure it returns '--ve' value.

If you're going to post a followup, please don't start a new thread.

If you're going to discuss fork(), please post to
comp.unix.programmer, not comp.lang.c.

Thanks.

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[Dev]

Better you move to unix group and post ur comments..

[Randy Howard]

santosh wrote
(in article
<11*********************@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups. com>):

satya wrote:

fork() does't return 2 vaule. it return only one vaule. on success it
returns '0' and of failure it returns '--ve' value.

Correction, it returns the child-process id to the parent process.

Correction, it can return anything, because it's not part of
standard C. On my Whizbang3 OS, it returns an array of pointers
to foods best eaten with a fork, and takes an optional parameter
to include spork matches in the results.
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