Re: fork() Problem?

David Miller (davem@twiddle.net)
Tue, 4 May 1999 19:02:39 -0700

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You do not initialize the "status" variable passed to wait(), this is
probably why it crashes on SunOS. "status" could contain anything,
any value, and probably it contains garbage or a wild pointer.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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