Re: fork(),exeve() and waitpid() in gtk-application?

[Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>]

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Rasca Gmelch wrote:
> 
> thx, ben wrote me to use _exit() and now it works nice.
> nevertheless, i don't understand it.. it is the childs which
> calls exit() so it should'nt conflict with the parent cause
> as long i undstand fork() it dupes the proces..!? hmm..
> 

parent and child share file descriptors. :-) That's how pipes work.

Havoc