Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpfcso!hpfcmgw!chan From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: fork()/exit() dumps core Message-ID: <1080166@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> Date: 10 Aug 90 17:12:36 GMT References: Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO Lines: 19 > the pristine "clean-room" environment of my mind. > > Niels Mayer -- hplabs!mayer -- mayer@hplabs.hp.com Hmmmm. Must be a different Niels Mayer. But enough levity. If I read the original question correctly, the fork is being done in the library code, so the application programmer can't close all the fd's after the fork. Strangely enough though, the library code *is* closing all the fd's after the fork. Does your code do any forking? There is some weird stuff in there to handle SIGCLD when the NLS server is forked (actually as a grandchild of the original process). Any NLS gurus out there? -- Chan Benson HP Fort Collins