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Re: trivial problem with fork

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:03:09AM -0800, Gowri Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Hi All,

[...]

> Hope I have been clear. Thanks.

If I understand, you want the prompt to be printed after the child has
exited ?
You should know that the shell waits only for the a.out processes (using
a wait() function), not its child, so you should add a wait() call
before your main program exits.

Hope to be clear also :-)

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