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From: ramsey@NCoast.ORG (Cedric Ramsey)
Subject: Forking a process in 'C'
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 90 21:55:24 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Sep22.215524.1587@NCoast.ORG>

Hello people. I wanted to fork a process in 'C' here's the program:

main ()
{
	int status;
	/* create a new process */
	if (fork() == 0)
		{
		/* overlay new process with a different program via 'exec' */
		execlp (...);
		}
	/* sleep until child has terminated */
	wait(&status);
	return (0);
}

The problem ? The program goes into an infinite loop at the wait statement.
It simply never return. What am i doing wrong ?

THankyou All !