From: Thomas Degris (t_thomas at domain trados.ie)
Date: Mon 24 Jul 2000 - 14:46:23 IST
Thank you very much for your help. I think I get what I need.
At 02:09 PM 7/24/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello, I don't know if it the right mailing list but I am trying to program
>a little thing for Linux and I get two problems.
>
>The first is I would like use the function rand and I can't find out
>(sorry, I am net very clever you know...) how I can initialize the series
>of random number with the clock or something like that. I get each time the
>same serie.
>
>My second problem is I would like run another program. So, I use :
>pid=fork();
>if (pid==1) { //maybe it's zero, I can't remember
> execv(myprogram,argv);
> exit(0);
>}
>
>The problem is when I am doing a ps to see the list of the processus, the
>program each time I run it is in the list like a zombie. How it is possible
>to finish it completely ?
>
>Thank you very much for your help.
>
>Thomas
>
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