Re: trivial problem with fork

[Lukas Ruf <ruf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gowri,

> >./a.out hello
>
> I get a prompt and then see hello and I don't see the prompt after
> hello.
>
the issue with that: it is not fully deterministic which program gets
executed after the fork.  It could be that the shell is scheduled
first....

Show us your code for further explanations.

wbr,
Lukas
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