This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Time sharing and fork
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:50:07PM +0000, Stephane Corbe wrote:
>An interresting part of strace traces of the programm show well that the
>child didn't start before the death of his father :
That's not guaranteed fork behavior. If the child never started, that would
be a bug. There is no guaranteed behavior with respect to which process is
scheduled after a fork on windows or linux. If you want to serialize things
use one of the wait calls.
cgf
--
Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions.
Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ .
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/