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Craig Nelson wrote: > I am having trouble with a socket request server under win95. > > If I write a program to handle incoming socket requests, one at a time, the > program runs beautiful. however, if I modify the program to use fork() to > process each socket request, the program dumps, reporting that the stack is > probably corrupted. > > I've tried to narrow the problem down using a small test case program, and that > also runs fine with, or without fork(). But using the original program under > every other unix works flawlessly as well (even purified). > > My theory is this: > > -Because the original program runs fine with unix, i will assume its ok. > > -Because the original program runs fine when used on gnu-win32 without > fork(), i will continue to assume that it's ok. > > -The smaller test program only worked because it did not "do enough" > other processing for the system to realize that the stack had been > corrupted. > > And so I conclude that the problem is with fork() under gnu-win32. > > Has anyone else experienced this scenario with fork? > > I've checked all the archives, FAQs and everything, so this is my last resort. > > I would certainly appreciate any help anyone has to offer.. > I have had your same problem with the fork() on NT server 4.0 with the version b17 and b18 of the GCC. In my program the fork() gave back -1 every time that I called the chdir(), otherwise it worked!! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | D'Altoe' Riccardo | +---------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Politecnico di Torino | phone: +39-(0)11-5647090 | | Dip. Automatica e Informatica | | | corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 | e-mail: daltoe@athena.polito.it | | 10129 Torino | | | ITALY | fido : riccardo daltoe 2:334/203 | +---------------------------------+------------------------------------+
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