On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:50:07PM +0000, Stephane Corbe wrote: >An interresting part of strace traces of the programm show well that the >child didn't start before the death of his father :
That's not guaranteed fork behavior. If the child never started, that would be a bug. There is no guaranteed behavior with respect to which process is scheduled after a fork on windows or linux. If you want to serialize things use one of the wait calls. cgf -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions. Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/