[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: vfork issues

2006-12-21 Thread huy vu
Thank to you both, Nacho and Joerg. However I would love to hear why the call to exec would fail right after a call to fork(). From reading things about vfork() it sounds like its sole purpose is to allow people to call exec right after a fork. I just like to understand why exec doesn't work wel

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: vfork issues

2006-12-21 Thread huy vu
Could someone tell me why one must use vfork() if one is to call exec right after? I am seeing exec fails right after doing a fork() and would like to under stand why before trying vfork() Thanks, Huy This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ op