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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: fork() is returning > 0  ???
Message-ID: <14412@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 10 Nov 90 05:32:02 GMT
References: <2691@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <2691@ux.acs.umn.edu> eric@ux.acs.umn.edu (Merlinus Ambrosius) writes:
>Can you explain why in this piece of code, fork() is returning a value
>other than -1 or 0?

Because fork() returns:
	-1		if unable to create another process
	0		in the newly created process branch
	the process id	of the new process, in the parent branch

By the way, this is a UNIX-specific question, not a C language question.

>... any ideas on what could be going on here would be wonderful.

I would think they would be necessary.