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From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org>
To: "Sharma, Tarun" <tsharma@iPolicyNet.COM>
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:30:57PM +0530 or thereabouts, Sharma, Tarun seemed to write:
> while running a program I found that fork was giving some error. Can anybody
> tell me why fork can give error and whats the solution for not getting this
> problem ?

Is it your program?
If so, do something like this:
	int kid_pid;
	/* ... later ... */
	switch (kid_pid = fork()) {
		case -1:
			perror ("myprogram: fork()");
			exit (1);
		/* ... rest of it ... */
	}

If not, the program is not giving you enough info :-)
You may be able to attach it in gdb and break fork,
step until the next line of code after the fork, and
print (char *) strerror (errno).

HTH,
-- Josh

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> Tarun 
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