From: Kenn Humborg (kenn at domain bluetree.ie)
Date: Mon 24 Jul 2000 - 15:08:34 IST
> why did you have the parent exec the process? it would be best
> to have the
> child do it. like so:
>
> pid = fork();
> if (pid > 0) {
> /* child exec's the program */
> return execv(myprogram,argv);
...
Bzzt! Wrong. fork() return 0 in the child and non-zero
in the parent. So that (pid > 0) should be (pid == 0).
Later,
Kenn
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