Re: OT: fork(): parent or child should run first?

Kurt Wall
2006-01-12T01:39:06Z

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:02:55PM +0100, Gábor Lénárt took 0 lines to write:
> Hello,
>
> Ok, you're absolutly right here. My problem is to find some solution and not
> to change the behaviour of fork() of course :) It's quite annoying to
> introduce some kind of IPC between parent and childs just for transferring a
> single pid_t ;-) Using exit status would be great (I would transfer "n")

But IPC, especially shared memory, would be great for this if you can
set up the shmid ahead of time. It would certainly be fast.

Kurt
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