Re: fork() Problem?

Simon Kenyon (simon@koala.ie)
Wed, 05 May 1999 22:51:56 +0100 (BST)

On 05-May-99 Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> The problem is that if anybody writes code like this, they should be
> terminated with extreme prejudice. This is using a gcc compiler bug as
> a feature.

i would probably write it as:

if ((pid = fork()) != 0)

but:

if (pid = fork())

is perfectly kosher C
has been for 20 years

methinks you've made a mistake

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