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Date:      Tue, 22 Dec 1998 01:44:53 PST
From:      Michael Ryan <mike@NetworX.ie>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
Cc:        FreeBSD Support <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Mystery with pipe(), fork() and dup()
Message-ID:  <ECS9812220153E@NetworX.ie>

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On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:36:40 +1300 (NZDT) Jonathan Chen wrote:

> Well, for one thing
> 
> 	if (pid)
> 
> really means:
> 
> 	if (pid != 0)

I know.  In the context of my program
	if (pid == 0)
means the child process will execute the code, whereas
	if (pid)
means the parent process will execute the code.


Bye,
Mike
mike@NetworX.ie
www.NetworX.ie
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