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Re: fork opens sth?

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:29:44AM +0000, Muzaffer Ozakca wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that after forking a child, an open() returns 4 as the file 
> descriptor where I suppose it to be 3, because the parent does not open 
> any file/pipe or anything before fork. Am I missing sth here? It is not 
> mentioned anywhere that fork() opens anything.

Here's works fine. After fork(), an open() executed returns 3 in 
parent and child process. I'm using kernel 2.4.12.


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