Re: fork() Problem?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Wed, 05 May 1999 20:20:37 -0400

In message <3730A14B.C8A21437@zerg.com>, "Forever shall I be." writes:
+-----
| Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe there is any order
| that fork is required to run in, and on SMP machines you're most
| definately asking for trouble if you assume one runs before the
| other...
+--->8

One would think so. Then again, I recall release notes for a certain RDBMS
which noted that changes had been made to fix a bug because the order had
changed on one OS....

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