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From: Olivier Andrieu <andrieu@ijm.jussieu.fr>
To: micha-1@fantasymail.de
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] printf and fork question
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:10:29 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050307.151029.41642248.oandrieu@nerim.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050307144422.1e67bef6.micha-1@fantasymail.de>

 > Michael [Mon, 7 Mar 2005]:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I don't understand why this:
 > 
 > open Unix;;
 > let _ = 
 > 	Printf.printf "Hi! %d\n" (getpid());
 > 	match fork() with
 > 	| 0 -> if fork() <> 0 then exit 0;
 > 	       ()
 > 	| id -> ignore (waitpid [] id)
 > 
 > prints out that:
 > Hi! 12215
 > Hi! 12215
 > Hi! 12215
 > 
 > 
 > with ocaml 3.08.2. Any hints?

You haven't flushed stdout : so the Hi! stays in the buffer and the
children inherit it.

-- 
   Olivier


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-07 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-07 13:44 Michael
2005-03-07 13:57 ` [Caml-list] " Gerd Stolpmann
2005-03-07 14:03 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2005-03-07 14:05 ` David Fox
2005-03-07 14:10 ` Olivier Andrieu [this message]
     [not found] ` <6b8a9142050307060758200ad3@mail.gmail.com>
2005-03-07 14:12   ` Michael

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