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> If it works, '(aaa &) && bb' can't mean anything other than 'aaa & bb'.  
> The "bb" always executes, regardless of the result of "aaa".

It does ? I would have thought that this would only execute "bb" if the
fork succeeds on the right hand side. How else do you test for fork failing ?

-pcf.

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