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From: eric@ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: fork() is returning > 0  ???
Message-ID: <2691@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 21:48:50 GMT
Reply-To: eric@ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius)
Organization: Weylani-Yutano Corporation
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Can you explain why in this piece of code, fork() is returning a value
other than -1 or 0?  When it works fine in other situations in the same
program?  I tried changing 
    switch (fork ()) {
to
    switch (fix = fork ()) {
where fix is declared as an int, no difference (as expected), fix does get
the pid of the child.

    switch (fork ()) {
    case -1:
        Msg (errno, "fork");
        /*NOTREACHED*/
    case 0:
        break;
    default:
        Attacher ();
        /*NOTREACHED*/
    }

It always ends up in the default case, which shouldn't be happening.
For now, I'm just going to stick a break in the default before it calls
Attacher(), but any ideas on what could be going on here would be wonderful.

Thanks,
		Eric
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