On 12/14/13, 2:08 PM, dethrop...@web.de wrote: > I thought the value was only 0 if the fork/spawn was succesful.
Sure, of course. (Posix does not document any other return value, btw.) -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/