On Tuesday 19 February 2002 4:18 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:59:09PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > I'd like to commit the attached patch. > > are you trying to confuse :) > > + if (pid<=0) { // Fork failed. > + retval = 1;
Sorry, I don't follow you. We tried to fork and failed, so return an indication of such to the function that invoked startscript. Why is that confusing. > please separate out the three cases after fork() ! > as it is the comment is dead wrong You're being too cryptic for me. Don't follow you. > + if (getpid() == 0) { > > please don't (man getpid) - it's just confusing to use the > same name... so you'd be happy with pid() here. Fair enough. Angus